Theresa May calls for General Election.
The Prime Minister will introduce a motion in the house on Wednesday 19th April 2017 to call for a General Election on 8th June 2017.
She will need a majority vote of two thirds of MPs in Parliament to override the Fixed Term Parliament Act.
Prime Minister Theresa May triggers Article 50.
At 12.30pm on Wednesday 29th March 2017 a letter triggering the exit from the European Union by the United Kingdom was handed to the EU President Donald Tusk in Brussels.
The UK will now formally leave the EU in two years. During this time the UK will try and create an acceptable deal with the remaining 27 countries of the EU.
Theresa May to trigger Article 50 by the end of March 2017.
The Prime Minister has said that the formal process to leave the EU will begin by the end of March 2017.
Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty will be triggered then.
PM said that the June 2016 vote on Brexit to leave the EU was also a clear message from the British people that they want us to control the movement of people coming into the UK.
Theresa May to introduce Repeal Act in Queens Speech.
Prime Minister May is to introduce an EU Repeal Act in the forthcoming Queens Speech.
The Bill will remove the European Communities Act 1972 from the statute book. May says this would make the UK an independent sovereign nation.
The repeal of the 1972 Act takes effect when the UK leaves the EU under Article 50. The Repeal Act will enshrine existing EU law into British Law and would allow the Government to amend or cancel any legislation after Brexit.
Repeal Act would also end the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.
Theresa May to trigger Article 50 without a commons debate.
Downing Street say the PM has consulted Government lawyers who state she has the executive power to invoke Article 50 without a vote in Parliament.
The Prime Minister say the British public have voted and she will get on with delivering Brexit.
Mays first PMQs and trip to Berlin.
Prime Minister May took her first Prime Ministers Questions today, Wednesday 20th July 2016. By all accounts she gave an exceptional performance and certainly outperformed the opposition leader,Jeremy Corbyn.
Later in the day she went to Berlin and met with Chancellor Merkel. In a speech she confirmed that Brexit meant Brexit and the UK would make a success of it. Merkel confirmed that Germany would not make things difficult for the UK.
Theresa May is the 13th Prime Minister.
Theresa May has met the Queen at Buckingham Palace and become the United Kingdoms 13th Prime Minister.
Brexit means Brexit.
Theresa May stood outside the St Stephens entrance to the Palace of Westminster on the afternoon of Monday 11th July 2016 and said:
Let’s hope she does mean it. A lot of people will be watching closely.