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Theresa May returned to the political frontline today with an order to her Cabinet to see Brexit as “a moment of great opportunity”.
Opening a special brainstorming day at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country retreat, she told ministers that leaving the EU should be seen as a chance to be “bold” and reshape both society and Britain’s role in the world.
Mrs May’s optimistic words contrasted with private tensions between ministers and anxieties among Tory MPs who fear the Government does not yet have a vision of an exit deal. Negotiations with 27 EU leaders start next year at the same time as fraught elections in Germany and France.
Theresa May returned to the political frontline today with an order to her Cabinet to see Brexit as “a moment of great opportunity”.
Opening a special brainstorming day at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country retreat, she told ministers that leaving the EU should be seen as a chance to be “bold” and reshape both society and Britain’s role in the world.
Mrs May’s optimistic words contrasted with private tensions between ministers and anxieties among Tory MPs who fear the Government does not yet have a vision of an exit deal. Negotiations with 27 EU leaders start next year at the same time as fraught elections in Germany and France.
Today’s summit follows attempts to patch up turf wars between Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson, Brexit Secretary David Davis and International Trade Secretary Liam Fox.
Mrs May chaired a formal Cabinet meeting this morning before a wide-ranging political Cabinet this afternoon, billed as a chance for ministers to pitch in new ideas for the “opportunities” created by Brexit.
The Prime Minister said: “This is a moment of great opportunity for our country: the chance to forge a bold, new positive role for ourselves in the world, and to reshape our economy and our society here at home. ” Mrs May repeated her mantra that “Brexit means Brexit”, adding: “That means there must be no attempts to remain inside the EU, no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum.”
With her first major world summit — the G20 in China — starting this weekend, Mrs May used phone calls with two other leaders this morning to signal her intent to be a global player and remain in Nato. She told Finnish premier Juha Sipilä and Norway’s Erna Solberg that she wanted to think creatively about Britain’s exit terms, “rather than necessarily pursuing an existing model”.
On defence and security, she pledged the UK would be “an outward-facing and globally engaged nation”.
Theresa May returned to the political frontline today with an order to her Cabinet to see Brexit as “a moment of great opportunity”.
Opening a special brainstorming day at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country retreat, she told ministers that leaving the EU should be seen as a chance to be “bold” and reshape both society and Britain’s role in the world.
Mrs May’s optimistic words contrasted with private tensions between ministers and anxieties among Tory MPs who fear the Government does not yet have a vision of an exit deal. Negotiations with 27 EU leaders start next year at the same time as fraught elections in Germany and France.
Theresa May returned to the political frontline today with an order to her Cabinet to see Brexit as “a moment of great opportunity”.
Opening a special brainstorming day at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s country retreat, she told ministers that leaving the EU should be seen as a chance to be “bold” and reshape both society and Britain’s role in the world.
Mrs May’s optimistic words contrasted with private tensions between ministers and anxieties among Tory MPs who fear the Government does not yet have a vision of an exit deal. Negotiations with 27 EU leaders start next year at the same time as fraught elections in Germany and France.
Today’s summit follows attempts to patch up turf wars between Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson, Brexit Secretary David Davis and International Trade Secretary Liam Fox.
Mrs May chaired a formal Cabinet meeting this morning before a wide-ranging political Cabinet this afternoon, billed as a chance for ministers to pitch in new ideas for the “opportunities” created by Brexit.
The Prime Minister said: “This is a moment of great opportunity for our country: the chance to forge a bold, new positive role for ourselves in the world, and to reshape our economy and our society here at home. ” Mrs May repeated her mantra that “Brexit means Brexit”, adding: “That means there must be no attempts to remain inside the EU, no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum.”
With her first major world summit — the G20 in China — starting this weekend, Mrs May used phone calls with two other leaders this morning to signal her intent to be a global player and remain in Nato. She told Finnish premier Juha Sipilä and Norway’s Erna Solberg that she wanted to think creatively about Britain’s exit terms, “rather than necessarily pursuing an existing model”.
On defence and security, she pledged the UK would be “an outward-facing and globally engaged nation”.
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