David Cameron rules out second EU referendum after Brexit

Independent 

 

The Prime Minister’s spokesperson said that holding another vote was “not remotely on the cards”. The clarification comes amid a petition calling for a re-run in the event of a close result and following speculation that the government may go to the country again once the terms of Britain’s new relationship have been agreed. 

 

Mr Cameron chaired the first Cabinet meeting since the Brexit vote at midday on Monday, where ministers confirmed plans for a special government unit to draw up options for Britain’s renegotiation with the EU. 

 

However, formal negotiations cannot start until Britain activates Article 50 – initiating the formal two-year procedure for withdrawing from the EU. Mr Cameron has said this will be a task for the next Prime Minister, who will not be in place until a Conservative leadership election has concluded by October. 

 

And also on Monday, the head of the Brexit campaign said it was important to delay the formal process of leaving the EU because people need to "go away on holiday". 

 

Vote Leave chief executive Matthew Elliott welcomed Mr Cameron's decision to delay the "divorce" for several months, despite pressure from Brussels for a rapid departure.

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Get out now: EU leader tells Britain it must invoke Article 50 on Tuesday

Comment: The Eurocrats are crapping themselves and the British Conservative Establishment is obviously enjoying the leverage....

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Metro UK

 

The European Parliament’s chief called Sunday for British Prime Minister David Cameron to begin formal proceedings to leave the EU at a summit this week.

Martin Schulz told German newspaper Bild am Sonntag that a period of limbo over Brexit would ‘lead to even more insecurity and thus endanger jobs’.

‘Hesitating simply to accommodate the party tactics of the British conservatives hurts everyone,’ he said.

‘That is why we expect the British government to now deliver. The summit on Tuesday is the right time.’

The four biggest groups in the European Parliament have also drawn up a draft resolution calling for Cameron to set the Brexit ball rolling on Tuesday, Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported.

This was crucial, the groups wrote, ‘to avoid damaging uncertainty for all and to preserve the integrity of the union’.

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