British Prime Minister Theresa May speaking to an audience at London’s Lancaster House confirmed that the United Kingdom is going to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty and move out of the European Union. She said that her government would work to seek a bold and ambitious deal for the British people. However, she seems to be in favor keeping close and friendly relations with rest of the countries in the EU. She said, “We are leaving the EU, but we are not leaving Europe”. Below are the key points from that speech that our readers should ponder upon,

• Britain will not seek continued single market membership with the EU.
• On the customs union, the UK wants to leave the common external tariff but reach a new, unspecific customs agreement.
• UK will make contributions to the EU budget but that won’t be a vast one.
• UK parliament will vote on the final deal with EU before it comes into force. Both the house will be allowed to vote.
• UK government wants a phased process of implementation of the deal.
• UK will leave the EU without an exit deal if a good one can’t be reached.
• The country won’t provide a unilateral guarantee to residing EU nationals.
• The UK will control the numbers of immigrants arriving from the single market union.
• The common travel area between the UK and Ireland will remain as it is.
• The country would continue its security co-operations with the EU.

The outlines given out by the Prime Minister attracted praises both in the country and in EU. However, as the PM rejected special arrangements for Scotland, Scotland National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon might ask for another independence referendum.