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Theresa May will set out a 12-point plan for Brexit as she vows that the UK will not have “partial”
membership of the EU “that leaves us half-in, half-out”.
Mrs May will make her most significant speech since becoming Prime Minister in July last year
and confirm that Britain will leave the single market and customs union after Brexit.
In remarks that will delight Conservative Eurosceptics, Mrs May will pledge that Britain outside
the European Union will be a “great, global trading nation” that is “respected around the world and
strong, confident and united at home”.
The Prime Minister will make regaining control of Britain’s borders one of the central themes
of her Brexit strategy and will also make clear that the rights of UK expats will be protected.
She will make clear for the first time that Britain will not seek a watered down version of Brexit,
something that Remain campaigners are still pushing for.
The Prime Minister will say that Britain is quitting the single market and although she will be
less explicit on the issue of the customs union, her remarks will make clear that after Brexit the UK
will no longer be a member.
inReadHer remarks will be seen as a direct rebuke to European leaders who have repeatedly
claimed that Britain will have to compromise on freedom of movement if it wants membership of the
single market or customs union.
“We seek a new and equal partnership – between an independent, self-governing, Global
Britain and our friends and allies in the EU,” the Prime Minister will say in the speech in Lancaster
House in London.
“Not partial membership of the European Union, associate membership of the European
Union, or anything that leaves us half-in, half-out. We do not seek to adopt a model already enjoyed
by other countries. We do not seek to hold on to bits of membership as we leave.
The United Kingdom
is leaving
the European
Union. My job is
to get the right
deal for Britain
as we do.”
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