Theresa May’s ‘prestigious’ slot for speech to EU leaders
A bumper UK/EU free trade deal has always been at the heart of Brexiteers’ assumptions about why life on the outside might be better for the UK.
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A bumper UK/EU free trade deal has always been at the heart of Brexiteers’ assumptions about why life on the outside might be better for the UK.
President Hollande gave the sharpest words of the day on Brexit. The French President said: ” I have said it very clearly; Madame Theresa May wants a hard Brexit, then talks will be hard too.”
Everything we know about Mrs May suggests that she would be very cautious about increasing overseas involvement like a no-fly-zone.
The message is that great change must come, dictated by the roar of the Brexit vote. She has determined what the roar meant.
Theresa May rubbished the distinction between “hard” and “soft” Brexit as a “false dichotomy.”
We are awaiting Theresa May’s first address to the UN. The UN’s mind is elsewhere. The attack on a humanitarian convoy in Syria has dominated the coverage here. Also President Obama’s farewell.
Like her predecessor, Mrs May will emphasise that the solutions lay in the regions where the refugee crises are at their worst.
Theresa May batted away all attempts by MPs to make her spell out her Brexit renegotiation strategy. There will be no running commentary she said – repeatedly.
Until Theresa May mentioned, in her closing press conference, how her predecessor shared her opposition to a points based system, I hadn’t heard David Cameron’s name mentioned here once.
China’s ambassador to the UK warns Theresa May Britain must stay open to Chinese business, as doubts grow over a joint nuclear project.
The Cabinet has agreed that triggering Brexit won’t need a vote in Parliament. Theresa May wants to push ahead and trigger Article 50 in January/February 2017.
Back to work: The new Prime Minister holds her first cabinet as Government lawyers indicate Article 50 will not be triggered until the end of the year.
While some sit nervously awaiting the call up, for the losers in this change of administration, ministers and their teams, there have been tears shed, drink taken and no shortage of bad feeling.
Power passed to Theresa May in a precision switchover at Buckingham Palace. She’s now appointing new Secretaries of State – and ending the careers of others.
One insider describes her as a formidable negotiator with great attention to detail – someone who, perhaps surprisingly, “cares more about the little people than the big ones”.