In a speech to her Conservative Party, Prime Minister Theresa May has outlined a schedule for Brexit which would see the UK leave the EU by 2019 and decide as a "sovereign country" how to control immigration.
In her first speech to the Conservative Party faithful as their leader, UK Prime Minister Theresa May has outlined her strategy for leaving the European Union after membership lasting more than 40 years.
"We are going to be a fully independent, sovereign country - a country that is no longer part of a political union with supranational institutions that can override national parliaments and courts," May said in her speech on Sunday.
"And that means we are going, once more, to have the freedom to make our own decisions on a whole host of different matters, from the way we label our food to the way in which we choose to control immigration," she said.
In a referendum on June 23, the British electorate was split 52 percent in favor of leaving the European Union, with 49 percent against. May said the vote was a "clear message from the British people that they want us to control movement of people coming into the UK."
Exit schedule
In press and television interviews ahead of her speech, May said Article 50 to start the two-year process to leave the EU would be triggered before the end of March 2017.
"There will be no unnecessary delays in invoking Article 50. We will invoke it when we are ready. And we will be ready soon. We will invoke Article 50 no later than the end of March next year," May said.
The first round of national French elections will be held in April, and elections in Germany are due at a date to be determined on a Sunday between August 27 and October 22.
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