Britain's timetable for regaining control

EUROPEAN Union leaders are urging British Prime Minister Theresa May to speed up the UK's plans for exit. I agree. It is in the EU's and UK's interests to sort this out quickly. It need not be a difficult negotiation.

Many people seem to think that the UK is a weak petitioner, and that we have to be very careful in case we are expelled from the so-called single market. Many observers talk of bartering free movement and payments against some kind of maintained membership of the EU market.

This is misinformation. The facts are very different. We do not wish to be members of the single market, as that means accepting EU control over matters that we wish to control ourselves. The UK should raise no new tariffs or barriers on EU exports to us, and we should comply with all EU rules and regulations when exporting to these countries. In turn, they should impose no new tariffs and barriers on our exports to them.