Theresa May didn’t choose a quiet life when she appointed David Davis as the Brexit Secretary, Liam Fox as the International Trade Secretary and Boris Johnson as the Foreign Secretary. Mostly, the men have bickered amongst themselves up to this point. But today the Prime Minister’s official spokeswoman put some distance between May and her minister charged with Brexit negotiations.
Yesterday Davis had told the Commons that he thought it unlikely that Britain would be able to retain single market access while also controlling EU migration. He said:
‘This government is looking at every option but the simple truth is that if a requirement of membership is giving up control of our borders, I think that makes it very improbable.’
But today Downing Street told journalists that the Cabinet Minister was ‘setting out his view’, and contrasted this view with that of May’s which was ‘I think the Prime Minister set out how she’s approaching this yesterday which is we are going to be ambitious, we’re going to go after the best deal that we can get for the UK, and all the work on that is now underway.
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