Outlining a timetable for Britain to leave the European Union in the spring of 2019, Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday Oct 02,2016 put immigration at the center of her strategy for withdrawal, suggesting that Britain could be headed for a “hard Brexit,” or clean break, from the bloc.
In a speech at the start of the Conservative Party’s annual convention Birmingham, May said Britain would formally initiate exit negotiations by the end of March. Those talks will be governed by a two-year deadline unless all members of the bloc agree to prolong them.
Previously, May had said only that the talks, under Article 50 of an EU treaty, would not begin before the end of this year — a delay designed to buy time for the government to work out its negotiating stance.
On Sunday Oct 02,2016, Prime Minister Theresa May also began to lay down her priorities for a deal on withdrawal, known as Brexit, including the power to control immigration and reject EU rules that allow people to move and settle across national frontiers.
Prime Minister Theresa May also sought to quash any arguments that different parts of Britain could negotiate their own deal with the EU, a statement clearly aimed at Scotland, which voted against independence from the rest of Britain in a 2014 referendum but overwhelmingly voted to stay in the EU.
“We will negotiate as one United Kingdom and we will leave the European Union as one United Kingdom,” she said. “There is no opt-out for Brexit.”
Prime Minister Theresa May also announced that the Great Repeal Bill would be introduced in the Queen’s Speech next year. If passed by parliament, it would come into effect on the day that Britain formally leaves the EU and would automatically change existing EU law into British law.
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