He was to meet President of the European council Donald Tusk to deliver the letter of Article 50 that will initiate Brexit. It has fallen 17% since the referendum although it stabilized recently as investors awaited signs of how the talks would progress. Britain is divided over a “hard Brexit”, where May could walk away with no deal, and a “soft Brexit” with continued tariff-free trade, which Scotland and other pro-EU factions want. May wants to leave the EU’s single market to reduce the number of people allowed into Britain to work. “We believe that this might leave the UK and the other nations of Europe embittered and resentful for a generation.”

Source: Bangkok Post March 29, 2017 08:04 UTC