Mrs May can also expect to face questions over how Britain will control immigration after exiting the EU.
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Prime Minister Theresa May has already ruled out a second referendum and attempted to calm world leaders’ Brexit fears at the G-20 summit this weekend.
In the June 23 vote, 51.9 per cent, or 17.4 million people, voted to leave the European Union while 48.1 per cent, or 16.1 million people, voted to stay.
While four million people signed the petition, May has said the referendum result was clear and that “Brexit means Brexit”.
Mr Davis replied: “In the referendum that we have just had, the biggest mandate ever given to a British government, a clear large part of it was the question of immigration, and the Prime Minister has made it very plain that the current state of immigration can not go on and we will bring it to an end as a part of this process”.
“There will be no attempt to stay in the European Union by the back door”.
After May’s first meeting with US President Barack Obama since she became British leader in July, the two leaders sought to downplay the impact of a British exit on the much touted “special relationship” between the US and UK.
The Brexit Secretary said his desire to return to the backbenches is “overwhelming” and he wants to close down his department as soon as he can.
Ms May on Wednesday expressed confidence that Britain would secure new bilateral trade deals after it leaves the European Union, adding that a number of leaders she met at the G20 meeting in China this week said they would welcome talks on lowering trade barriers.
A senior Corbyn aide later said the Labour leader was in favour of negotiating full United Kingdom access to the single market, but would not accept a package including requirements on deregulation and privatisation, which he regarded as damaging to working people and public services.
The Tory MP for North East Somerset said: “It is important that the central bank is there to do things but it seems to me that if it is right that the Bank of England had solutions then it shouldn’t have been so scaremongering prior to the Brexit referendum”.
“They were mainly asking for more details”.
The chief of Britain’s new Brexit Department said Monday the government will not be rushed as it develops detailed plans for leaving the European Union, as May backed away from proposals to use a point-based system to manage immigration.
The Brexit result unleashed immediate political and financial market turmoil in Britain.
Last week May gathered her cabinet team for the first time since she asked them to use the summer break to come up with options for Britain’s future ties with the bloc after a divorce.
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In response to a later question the Prime Minister also confirmed she believed invoking article 50 was a “prerogative power” meaning Parliament did not need to be consulted before the leaving process began.
