United Kingdom will say little about Brexit before Article 50 – Davis

Britain’s Brexit minister David Davis said on Monday the government must persuade those who voted to stay in the European Union in both houses of parliament that Brexit is worthwhile.

The creation of a new body to report on paramilitaries in the North marks a decisive step toward ending their criminality, the region’s Secretary of State has said.

The government has been pressed for detailed answers on how it intends to enact the decision to quit the bloc, made in a June 23 referendum, by everyone from business leaders to foreign allies.

So far, it has revealed little.

But Prime Minister Theresa May has ruled out triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the official mechanism to split from Brussels, this year. The date when that will happen is not known.

He said he would hold talks with Mr Brokenshire on the still stalled efforts to establish new mechanisms to deal with the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Rudd’s comments raise the prospect of Brits on business paying about £50 to enter an European Union member state, as this is the current price of a visa for the Schengan free movement area.

Once the exit process has been started, Britain has an initial two-year period to negotiate its departure.

Citing Brussels sources, the specialist European Union news site Euractiv said the United Kingdom government was not involved in Etias, which is the responsibility of Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU’s migration and home affairs commissioner, and not Britain’s future European Union commissioner Julian King, who will take over the security portfolio.

“At that point, which is not yet, we will be doing some quite quantitative assessment of what we think the advantages and disadvantages are”, he said.

Before he takes up that position, however, King needs to win the approval of MEPs.

Instead, he highlighted three priorities to be achieved as soon as possible involving closer coordination among states: to convince voters that Europe’s borders were under control and there would be no repeat of last year’s migrant crisis; to combat violent militants; and to ensure that lives were not badly damaged by free trade and economic globalisation.