“Top of the in-tray will be getting on with making a success of Brexit”, according to a statement on Sunday from her office. Cameron had campaigned to keep Britain in the 28-nation bloc.
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Representatives for Prime Minister Theresa May have been tight-lipped over whether MPs will vote on Brexit.
Lawyers from the Mishcon de Reya lawfirm are poised to challenge the government in the English High Court, arguing that May can not trigger Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty – the legal process for leaving the bloc – without a parliamentary debate and vote authorising it to do so.
More than three quarters of Ms May’s cabinet had campaigned for Britain to remain in the European Union before the June 23rd referendum.
“We need to reassert our confidence and we need to do it now”. “The public want it too”, Andrew Bridgen, a Tory MP, said at the weekend.
He said: “Theresa May is running scared of a parliamentary vote on Article 50 because she is afraid of the scrutiny on the final Tory Brexit deal”.
Although some – like President Hollande in France – believe they call the shots and are demanding May triggers Article 50 so official negotiations can start in earnest, May is determined not to press the leave button until after Christmas.
If she did not hold a vote, she would “diminish parliament and assume the arrogant powers of a Tudor monarch”, Gardiner said.
Talks on future UK-EU relations are also speeding up on the mainland ahead of an extraordinary summit of 27 EU leaders without the UK in Bratislava in mid-September.
Other ministers, like Davis and Fox, believe access to the single market will mean the government will be unable to regain border controls and end the free movement of people – something echoed by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and other European Union leaders as they met privately last week.
“If we organise Brexit in the wrong way, then we’ll be in deep trouble, so now we need to make sure that we don’t allow Britain to keep the nice things, so to speak, related to Europe while taking no responsibility”, he said.
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Those close to Hammond reportedly denied he was frustrating the plans of his fellow cabinet ministers, saying he was “flexible at the moment” over what form Brexit takes and that single-market access could be maintained “on a sector by sector basis”.
