UK CANNOT stay in EU 'through back door' May warns her Cabinet: We WILL forge new future
THERESA MAY has wasted no time in reminding her senior Cabinet members "Brexit means Brexit", as they meet for the first time since their summer recess today.
DAILY EXPRESS - By JOEY MILLAR
PUBLISHED: 08:34, Wed, Aug 31, 2016
The PM said: "We have the opportunity to forge a new positive role for the UK in the world, to make sure that we are that Government and country that works for everyone - that everyone can share in the country's prosperity.
Mrs May is also using the the Cabinet meeting to compare Tory party unity with the turmoil within the Labour Party, despite reports of an ongoing feud between the ministers in charge of the main Brexit departments: Boris Johnson, Liam Fox and David Davis.
Aerial view of Chequers, the official country residence of British Prime Ministers since 1921
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THERESA MAY has wasted no time in reminding her senior Cabinet members "Brexit means Brexit", as they meet for the first time since their summer recess today.
DAILY EXPRESS - By JOEY MILLAR
PUBLISHED: 08:34, Wed, Aug 31, 2016
The new PM told her Cabinet this morning: "We must continue to be very clear that Brexit means Brexit, and we are going to make a success of it.
"That means no second referendum, no attempts to sort of stay in the EU by the back door."
Today's Cabinet meeting is taking place at the Prime Minister's country retreat Chequers, where working on the UK's divorce from Brussels will be at the top of the agenda.
David Davis, Boris Johnson and Liam Fox, whose new Cabinet positions will heavily focus on Brexit, are all present at the meeting.
She told her colleagues it was "a very significant moment for the country, as we look ahead to the next steps that we need to take".
The PM said: "We have the opportunity to forge a new positive role for the UK in the world, to make sure that we are that Government and country that works for everyone - that everyone can share in the country's prosperity.
"So there are challenges ahead but it's an important and significant moment for us and I think we have real opportunities to develop the United Kingdom and ensure that it does work for everyone in the UK."
Number 10 has insisted there is "no legal obligation" for Mrs May to consult Parliament before invoking the Article.
The comments leave open the possibility that negotiations could be launched without the approval of MPs being sought and Parliament could debate the issue without a formal vote taking place.
Downing Street has also confirmed that Mrs May will not hold a second referendum or an early general election to give voters the chance to sign off on any deal struck between the UK and the EU.
Mrs May is also using the the Cabinet meeting to compare Tory party unity with the turmoil within the Labour Party, despite reports of an ongoing feud between the ministers in charge of the main Brexit departments: Boris Johnson, Liam Fox and David Davis.
The UK's future outside the EU will be a key issue during the Prime Minister's first full week back at work following her summer holiday in Switzerland as she travels to the G20 summit in China at the weekend.
The summit will represent Mrs May's first international trip outside Europe as Prime Minister and she is expected to use it to highlight post-Brexit opportunities to other world leaders.
The Cabinet meeting at Chequers has prompted the SNP to accuse the Government of showing "breathtaking complacency".
The party's European affairs spokesman Stephen Gethins said: "It is over two months since the result of the Brexit referendum and ministers are only now being asked to come up with their ideas about how it might work at a 'country house away day'.
"This is breathtaking complacency from a government that got us all into this mess in the first place."
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