The British government has no intention of revoking its withdrawal from the European Union once the formal exit process has been triggered, Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman said on Monday. Prime Minister May declared her intention to trigger Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty by the end of March, launching two years talks for…
Category: Brexit
Is Brexit 'irrevocalbe'?
“People can take cases to court. My understanding is it is irrevocable and when we press the button that will go forward,” Justice Secretary Elizabeth Truss told during the BBC’s when asked about whether Britain could reverse the process. Brexit: Lords to begin debating bill to trigger Article 50 https://t.co/Fmr1VGtVdp — BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews)…
UK to walk away without a deal?
The UK departure without a deal as a concept appears persistently in different contexts, approaching the date of the triggering Article 50, promised by Prime Minister Theresa May in March, likely before the Treaty of Rome celebrations on the 27th, but after the Dutch general elections on the 15th. The UK officials do not wish…
A50: MEP Farage pleased by MPs vote
MPs have voted by a majority of 384 to allow Prime Minister Theresa May to get Brexit negotiations under way. Historic vote in Parliament tonight. A huge majority to get our Brexit negotiations going forward. History has been made — Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) February 1, 2017 They backed the government’s European Union Bill, supported by…
'New London' in Dublin refused
“There is not going to be any new London in the EU 27. History happened in a certain way. You can’t just lift institutions and drop then somewhere else,” Philip Lane, the head of the Irish central bank at an event in London. “You may well have this fragmented but integrated financial system so location…
Philadelphia: PM May on EU
Amazing speech by Theresa May in US. Makes you proud to be British — Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) January 26, 2017 “…Nations, accountable to their populations – “deriving” as the Declaration of Independence puts it “their just powers from the consent of the governed” – can choose to join international organisations, or not. They can choose…
Atkinson MEP on Supreme Court ruling
Janice ATKINSON MEP OPINION: “Today the out-of-touch, unelected elite Supreme Court Justices have ruled in favour of a few wealthy individuals who sought to thwart the will of the British people to leave the EU. “Our discredited former Prime Minister Tony Blair, himself a lawyer and the man who set up the Supreme Court may see this as a victory…
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