British PM May has ‘open mind’ on Brexit deal: spokeswoman

Mr Davis updated MPs on the progress made since the shock referendum result in June but faced claims the Government is “making it up as it goes along”.

Davis told lawmakers on Monday that, with the government focused on reducing immigration, it’s “very improbable” the United Kingdom would stay in the single market if doing so meant it couldn’t police migration flows.

Yesterday Davis had told the Commons that he thought it unlikely that Britain would be able to retain single market access while also controlling European Union migration.

But some bosses say they are planning blindly, with little idea of the type of trading deal Britain might pitch for when its official European Union exit process begins.

‘I don’t know why you have to have a policy on a view.

Former shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper dismissed Davis’s words as an “astonishingly empty statement” with “no plan, no sense of grip, no detail”. He read out a few dates in his diary, but anyone looking for Britain’s post-Brexit strategy would have looked in vain.

May rejected the public barbs, saying there was a willingness among G-20 counterparts to discuss striking trade deals. “An optimistic tone is not enough and the phrase “Brexit means Brexit” has surely passed its shelf life”, said Anna Soubry, who voted to remain in the EU.

Mr Davis insisted there will be no attempt to “delay, frustrate or thwart” the will of the British people for the country to leave the EU.

Stephen Gethins, the SNP’s European spokesman at Westminster, claimed the apparent mix-up meant the government was in “utter confusion” over their Brexit plans. “I think that’s what the British people want”.

“It means getting the best deal for Britain – one that is unique to Britain and not an “off the shelf” solution”.

He argued that Britain could be a “beacon for free trade across the world” and a “more glorious country” with an immigration system that controlled the numbers but also encouraged the “brightest and best” to come.

For many Brexiteers, taking back control means a stricter immigration system and it was with such anti-migrant rhetoric that thrust the Leave campaign into the lead, led by politicians including Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, both purporting the Australian based points system. She also met Australia’s Malcolm Turnbull, who said his government is keen to clinch a trade accord with the U.K as soon as it leaves the European Union. The Conservative premier also said she would not trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty – the official mechanism to split from Brussels – this year. And she said it was unacceptable for the government not to give parliament more of a say during the process. “We must have a vote”.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe raised the issue with British leader Theresa May on the sidelines of the G20 talks in Hangzhou yesterday, requesting “her co-operation to enhance predictability and to continue to secure Japanese companies’ businesses and value chains”.

Davis, who promised to hold roundtables with stakeholders in different sectors, also faced a hard challenge from a Tory grandee. Vote Leave campaigners, including several of Ms.