May: UK will have control over borders
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PRIME Minister Theresa May insisted yesterday that Britain will have “control over our borders” after Brexit, suggesting she would be prepared to quit Europe’s trading zone to achieve it.
“The referendum vote was a vote for us to ... bring control into our immigration system. I’m clear that is part of what we need to deliver,” she told Sky News in an interview. “We will be able to have control over our borders, of our laws.”
German leader Angela Merkel has warned Britain will not be able to remain in the European Union’s single market while “cherry picking” the terms — including over the free movement of labor.
May yesterday appeared to suggest she would be willing to quit the trade zone.
“Often people talk in terms of, somehow we’re leaving the EU but we still want to keep bits of membership of the EU,” she said. “We’re leaving, we’re coming out, we’re not going to be a member of the EU any longer.”
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon yesterday said the prospect of a second independence referendum for her nation was not mere bluster if Britain left the single market.
“They will be making a big mistake if they think I am in any way bluffing,” she said.
The vote would “give Scotland the opportunity to decide whether it wants to be driven off a hard Brexit cliff by right-wing Tory Brexiteers or whether it wants to take control of its own future,” she added.
Experts say a so-called “hard Brexit” would mean Britain withdrawing entirely from Europe’s single market and negotiating new trade arrangements in order to impose strict immigration controls.
May has come under increasing pressure to reveal more detailed plans about her Brexit strategy, and promised to do so in “the coming weeks.”
“When people voted in the referendum on the 23rd of June, they voted to leave the European Union, but they also voted for change and this year, 2017, is the year in which we start to make that happen.”
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