Britain will leave the European single market, restrict access to the country by EU citizens and end the jurisdiction¹ in Britain of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Prime Minister Theresa May said Tuesday in her toughest ever speech.

 

英国首相特蕾莎·梅周二发表一场最严肃的演讲：英国将离开欧洲统一市场，限制欧盟公民入境，结束欧盟法院对英国的管辖权。
 

 

Laying out a 12-point plan that amounts to a hard Brexit, May made it clear she wants a future relationship that is beneficial for both Britain and the EU's 27 member states. 

 

May said she wants Britain to remain as a "best friend and neighbor" to Europe, but also reach out to the rest of the world as a global trading nation, to countries such as China, Brazil and the Gulf² States.

 

On the critical question of the European single market, May said as a priority, Britain will pursue a bold and ambitious Free Trade Agreement with the European Union.

 

"What I am proposing cannot mean membership of the Single Market," May said.

 

European leaders have said membership means accepting the "four freedoms" of goods, capital, services and people.

 

And being out of the EU but a member of the single market would mean complying with the EU's rules and regulations that implement³ those freedoms, without having a vote on what those rules and regulations are. 

 

May added it was why both sides in the referendum campaign made it clear that a vote to leave the EU would be a vote to leave the single market.

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