Migration Is Major Problem; Borders Must Be Secured — EU’s Tusk

He added: “I don’t rule out the possibility of us being able to reach some accommodation on freedom of movement”.

“Those who want to have free access to our internal market, they have to implement the four freedoms without exception and without nuances”, Juncker said.

Cameron has said this is a task for his successor.

The 27 states are to meet again to discuss their approach to Brexit in Slovak capital Bratislava on September 16.

“There will be no single market a la carte”, Mr Tusk told a news conference in Brussels after the 27 leaders met without British Prime Minister David Cameron.

While Mr Cameron said: “Britain will be leaving the European Union, but we will not be turning our backs on Europe”.

Juncker, said Britain could not take “months to meditate”, reinforcing an emerging consensus in Brussels that the exit process, which once started, must be completed within two years, should begin at the latest by the end of the year.

Mr Hammond denied he was taking a swipe at Boris Johnson, insisting he “wasn’t at all talking” about the former London Mayor.

“This isn’t about a fear of referenda but what can be done quickly and efficiently”, she said.

“There will be no single market “à la carte”. The EEA Treaty, in article 112, allows contract parties to trigger unilateral “appropriate measures” if “serious economic, societal or environamel difficulatof a sectorial or regional nature” arise. “People expressed regret, but this is also a reality”.

Switzerland is outside the single market and has a free trade deal for goods and some services, but crucially not including financial services which could be a devastating blow for the city of London.

“I cannot imagine that this emergency brake can be a principled thing”, she said.

British voters held “a very great concern about the movement of people, and that’s coupled with a concern about sovereignty”, he told reporters. In such a serious situation I warn urgently not to ignore the sequence of events.

Nicola Sturgeon has travelled to Brussels with a message for key EU officials and leaders of the European Parliament that Scotland does not want to leave the 28-nation bloc.

He rejected Cameron’s assertion that immigration was the sole reason for Brexit.

France’s Francois Hollande, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Italy’s Matteo Renzi and others all made similar points.

This view was echoed by Taoiseach Enda Kenny following the meeting: “The closer the relationships the United Kingdom are going to have with the European Union the better for us”.

And he said he had agreed with fellow leaders that “we are not turning our backs on Europe and they are not turning their backs on us”. “I thought that if you wanted to leave, you had a plan”, he said. “This is not a time for wishful thinking but to look reality in the eye”.

He also made it clear Britain would not be getting its dream scenario of access to the single market with limits on migrant numbers by saying it is a dealbreaking part of being in the Union.