British Leader Chairs Cabinet Session to Discuss Brexit

The statements afterward gave no details of the results of their homework.

May opened the meeting by repeating a line that is becoming familiar.

Mrs May started to draw up the blueprints for Brexit today after hosting Cabinet-level ministers at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country retreat in Buckinghamshire. However, they made clear that it would be the United Kingdom government’s decision to establish the terms of Britain’s EU exit and when it would begin, ruling out any possibility of a Scottish veto.The Brexit debate needs more tolerance on both sidesCharles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, said immigration controls meant Britain’s Brexit deal would not be along the lines of that used for Norway or Switzerland.

“To ask the remaining countries to pay even more, will be hard to explain”, Oettinger said.

A statement after yesterday’s meeting suggests the United Kingdom will not seek to remain a member of the European Economic Area, which requires participating states to accept free movement rules.

“The PM said that there were two related imperatives: getting the best deal for people at home, and getting the right deal for Britain overseas”, a spokeswoman for May said.

One model would be akin to Norway’s relationship with the bloc albeit accepting less access to the single market in return for tighter immigration controls.

But in a visit to the West Midlands, the Prime Minister insisted she will be seeking a good deal on trade as well as controls on freedom of movement.

“Our principle of no notification, no negotiations is there to protect those who stay together, not the one leaving”, said Mr Tusk.

Mrs May’s opening gambit was to suggest that Britain would wish to remain part of the EU’s single market, but also apply restrictions on the rights of European Union citizens to come and work in Britain. Lawmakers were told in July that it’s within the administration’s “prerogative power” to pull the trigger. When Parliament will have a say will be something that will be resolved over the coming months.

The main opposition Labour Party described the plan to proceed without the approval of Parliament as “sheer high-handed arrogance”.

The ministers also discussed the government’s efforts to tackle social inequalities and its legislative program, and the political environment ahead of her Conservative Party’s annual autumn conference in early October. Ms.

The session also came after May’s office sidestepped questions on whether Parliament will be given a formal vote on triggering Article 50, the European Union treaty clause that sets up Britain’s departure from the 28-nation bloc. Scottish and Northern Irish voters both backed staying in the bloc. But on Wednesday, the new Tory cabinet emerged from their holiday hideaways to discuss how Britain will negotiate its exit from the EU.

The summit will represent Mrs May’s first worldwide trip outside Europe as Prime Minister and she is expected to use it to highlight post-Brexit opportunities to other world leaders.

Speaking on Tuesday, a No 10 spokesman said the government’s focus was on establishing the UK’s negotiating position and priorities with regard to the EU.