“What we are going to do is take back control”, he said, using the oft-repeated catchphrase of Britain’s “Leave” campaign. Complete baloney. Absolute baloney.
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A fairly strong majority of Brits want to stay in the single market, he said.
Mr Johnson’s remarks are likely to be welcomed by pro-Leave campaigners as an indication the Government is preparing for a “hard Brexit”.
He said he “understands that the British government wants to take its time”.
Many “out” voters have been confident that Britain would be able to renegotiate inclusion in the single market if we voted to leave.
“We are talking to our European friends and partners in the expectation that by the early part of next year you will see an Article 50 letter”.
But a Number 10 spokesman distanced the Government from Mr Johnson’s comments soon after they were aired.
Both Trump, who has proclaimed himself to be “Mr. Brexit”, and another United Kingdom politician, Nigel Farage, have sought to highlight similarities between the GOP nominee’s campaign in the US and the British referendum to leave the European Union – including on issues of trade and immigration policy.
In a strongly-worded attack Mr Schulz blamed the nastiness of the Leave campaign for the death of Jo Cox, the Labour MP for Batley & Spen who was killed during the campaign. “We are-and have always been-a European power”, Osborne stated.
“Is it in a customs union with the European Union?”
The rest of Europe is “looking on with concern” at the increase in “xenophobic violence and hate” since the June Brexit vote, Schulz said.
He added: “The only correct attitude towards such violence is zero tolerance”.
But several other sources said it was not clear that the British government had settled on any clear priorities, and that London had been mainly interested in ascertaining what options might be possible in negotiations before triggering the process.
But he also warned against allowing populist and nationalist groups across the continent to hijack this feeling to peddle their own views.
During her trip, May said the European Union divorce filing would take a few months of preparation, was clear that Brexit would happen and sought to reassure the world that Britain was not turning away from the world.
Mr Osborne, who was accused of “Project Fear” with doom-laden economic warnings during the European Union referendum campaign, backed Theresa May over the Brexit timetable as she came under growing pressure to press on with it.
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“I hope that. next weekend, for the Conservative party congress, we will hear more”.
