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"What I'm proposing cannot mean membership of the single market," Theresa May said. (Photo: Consilium)

Theresa May outlines 'hard Brexit'

by Eric Maurice, Brussels, January 17, 2017, 2:08:46 PM
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British prime minister Theresa May outlined on Tuesday (18 January) a strategy leading to a so-called hard Brexit from the EU.

"What I'm proposing cannot mean membership of the single market," she said in a speech to ambassadors called Plan for Britain.


She explained that the UK could not accept the four freedoms of goods, capital, services and people attached to the single market

"Being out of the EU but a member of the single market would mean complying with the EU’s rule...

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