Almost seven months since the people of the United Kingdom voted for their country to leave the European Union, on Tuesday 17 January, UK Prime Minister Theresa May delivered a keenly awaited speech on her government’s strategy for delivering Brexit.
May stated that leaving the EU meant leaving the single European market. She gave assurances, however, that her government would seek to ensure the best possible access to that same single market without actually belonging to it.
With the UK...