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Britain will leave the EU single market -

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Theresa may sets out her core demands for Brexit negotiations.

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She wants British laws to be judged in British courts, and new ways

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Brexit must mean control over the number of people who come

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to Britain from Europe, and that is what we

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The Prime Minister also had a message for other EU leaders -

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While I am sure a positive agreement can be reached, I am equally clear

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that no deal for Britain is better than a bad deal for Britain.

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Parliament will have a vote on the final deal, but already

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If all her optimism of a deal with the European Union didn't work, we

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would move into a low tax, corporate taxation,

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I'm not prepared for Scotland to be taken down a path that I firmly

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We'll be hearing the first reactions from across the EU.

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The Supreme Court gives this Libyan the right to sue a former foreign

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A jump in the cost of living - inflation hits a two-and-a-half-year

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Vinnie Jones will captain the six Nations squad with Sam Warburton

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told to fight for his place in the side.

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Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

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Britain will be leaving the EU single market.

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That was the clear-cut message from Theresa May as she set

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out her red lines for the Brexit negotiations that are

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Britain must be able to control the number of people

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British courts must have the final say in interpreting British laws.

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And Parliament will get the chance to vote on whatever

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The Prime Minister is aiming for what she called "a global Britain"

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that has the best possible trade deal with the EU while opening up

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There was a warning too for her EU counterparts -

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she will walk away if EU negotiators try to punish Britain.

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Here's our political editor, Laura Kuennsberg.

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On a day when Theresa May set out her vision for Briain's future.

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Good morning. What's the plan? On her way.

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Have you got a plan? On our way out, not just out of the European

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Union... Are we going to get a detailed plan? Theresa May gathered

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ministers and ambassadors too. To confirm finally, we will leave

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behind the way the country has made its living for decades.

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APPLAUSE As a priority, we will pursue a bold

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and ambitious free trade agreement with the European Union. This

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agreement should allow for the freest possible trade in goods and

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services between Britain and the EU's member states. It will give

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British companies the maximum freedom to trade with and operate

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within European markets, and let European businesses do the same in

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Britain. But I want to be clear - what I am proposing cannot mean

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membership of the single market. Privately, ministers had talked of

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preserving some parts of the special club, the market of hundreds of

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millions where our businesses can buy and sell without barriers.

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Remain as had pushed her, but she believes it can't be done, because

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the rules of the single market come with unlimited EU immigration. The

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message from the public, before and during the referendum campaign, was

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clear - Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to

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Britain from Europe, and that is what we will deliver. Our customs

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arrangements, how we trade over borders, will change too, but no

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final decision on how. Her clear hope, though, is that the UK will

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not pay billions to the EU every year. There may be some specific

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programmes in which we might want to participate. If so, and this will be

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for us to decide, it is appropriate that we will make a contribution,

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but the principle is clear: The days of Britain making vast contributions

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to the EU every year will end. 27 other countries will decide if her

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plans are an ambitious wish list or a fantasy, yet most dramatically, if

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after two years of talks negotiations stall, she and her team

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are willing to walk away. Written wants to remain a good friend and

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neighbour to Europe, yet I know there are some voices calling for a

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punitive deal that punishes Britain and discourages other countries from

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taking the same path. Britain would not, indeed, we could not, accept

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such an approach. While I am confident that this scenario need

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never rise, while I am sure a positive agreement can be reached, I

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am equally clear that no deal for Britain is better than a bad deal

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for Britain. Thank you. But remember, the Prime Minister never

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wanted to leave. During the referendum campaign, you said

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plainly that you believed if we left the EU and single market, the

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country, its families and citizens, would be worse off. Now, I doubt you

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have changed your mind, or, as Prime Minister, you have made a decision

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that you believe will leave the country and its citizens poorer -

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which is a? All the economic indicators have been more positive

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than people predicted. It is only earlier this week that the IMF

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confirmed we were the fastest growing economy last year. And what

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I am talking about today is the country is coming together and

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looking for that brighter future as a global Britain. Did the Brexit

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backers in the Cabinet get the upper hand? It was an excellent speech,

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optimistic, confident, and it set out our responsibilities in a global

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context. This wasn't an inward looking, purely European speech. It

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is negotiate bulk -- negotiable, good for the UK and for the rest of

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the EU as well. Why should they allow us to have our cake and eat

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it? As the Prime Minister said, it will be good for both sides. Do you

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think what she set out is achievable? We shall have to see.

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Not exactly nodding along, either, the other parties across the UK. The

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political consequences of Theresa May's choices are unclear. I think

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we have to have a deal that ensures we have access to the market, that

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we have British jobs depended on that market, that is what we will be

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pushing for. If it is specifically this form of single market, I don't

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know. She seems to want to have her cake and eat it. Choices emerging

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here. Do we want to be taken down a path that we didn't vote for and

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which is against our interests, audibly want to take control of our

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own future? And I think that is a choice Scotland has the right to

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make. To wave the white flag across the Straits of Dover, as Theresa May

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has done, is damaging to Britain's future and is a theft of democracy.

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In Brussels, the message will had been received and at last clear.

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Parliament was told today they will get a vote on the final deal, but

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his is plain that the Prime Minister believes the country has delivered a

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clear verdict, and she has made her mind up, drawn her big conclusions.

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Her dilemma is now are persuading a continent that what she wants is

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possible, and those who voted to stay in the EU that it's even

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desirable, but this is really only the start of a long process. Much

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will change. Concern and criticism won't fade away. The scale of what

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we decided, how it will change our country and all our lives is still

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fully to emerge. Laura Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.

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For decades now, Britain has traded within the EU's single market.

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As we've been hearing, those days are numbered.

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So what is the European single market and what could

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Here's our diplomatic correspondent, James Landale.

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The single market is the beating heart of the European Union, it

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binds the European community together. The members believe that

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if they get rid of barriers to trade and have goods, services and workers

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move freely across their borders, then their economies will grow. To

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make this happen, they agreed, trading rules. A widget made in

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Greece same as one made in Spain. They set up the European Court of

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Justice to make sure everybody follows the rules. Supporters say

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the single market helped British companies flourish, like this

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engineering firm in Bristol. It makes it easier for them to export

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their goods and employ people from across the EU. I think there's an

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obvious risk morass outside of the single market. We trade increasingly

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with Europe. I think any change in the customs regime is probably going

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to make us uncompetitive. But opponents say the single market

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imposes unnecessary red tape on British firms, like this nappy

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manufacturer in Northampton. It gives too much power to EU judges,

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and allows into many migrant workers. The owner of this firm says

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the opportunities outside are greater. I think morally we can't

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remain part of the single market because we want to go out and do our

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trade deals with countries outside the EU, and that's very exciting for

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countries such as ours. So, to help make that happen, Theresa May wants

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Britain to have instead the greatest possible access to the single

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market. Particularly the British cars, lorries and financial

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services, and to get that by negotiating a new free trade deal

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with the EU. If she can, and if they are willing. And what about the

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so-called customs union, the deal under which EU countries impose the

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same tariffs on goods and services imported from outside the EU?

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Theresa May said she didn't want that UK to be bound by this any more

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and instead wanted Britain to be able to set its own tariffs and

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negotiate its own trade deals with the rest of the world. But, she said

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she would accept some kind of new customs arrangement with the EU but

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didn't spell out what that might be. So, this is what the Prime Minister

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wants. Now, all she has to do is get the EU members to agree, and that's

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far from certain. I have skated over the surface of what are some

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important issues, so you can read more detail on the BBC website, that

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will take you through all the options and what that might be.

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George. It didn't take long

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for EU leaders to react. The president of the EU Council

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called the speech realistic, but the European Parliament's

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negotiator called The pound strengthened

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after the Prime Minister's speech. More on that from our

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Business Editor Simon Jack, who is at the World Economic

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Forum in Switzerland. But first, let's talk to our Europe

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Correspondent Damian Grammaticas, Damian, I suppose people are still

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die jesting the speech, but any themes emerging? -- digesting. There

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is a feeling that there is a little more clarity, but the European

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Parliament's chief negotiator said that in his view Theresa May was

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selling an illusion, because this idea that you could read the single

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market, leave the customs union and then still enjoy privileged access,

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he said that was an illusion. Also, another senior MEP said to me that

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Theresa May was overselling the benefits of what could be achieved

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with trade deals with distant countries, and underestimating the

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difficulties that there will be for British companies, British

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businesses, giving trade with the EU. He said they may find it very

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difficult in the future if there are things like customs checks, Mike

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tariffs coming in. Also, the idea that the UK could walk away was

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dismissed, saying the UK would suffer most. One negotiator said he

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is not seeking to punish the UK in the negotiations. Simon, let's come

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to you. I guess you couldn't be in a better place to gauge business

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sentiment. What is the reaction so far? Businesses have been calling

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out for some clarity. We got some today - no ifs, no buts, no single

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market. Pretty clear, but most leaders I've spoken to here had come

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to this conclusion themselves, thinking that continued membership

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of the single market was incompatible with the political

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imperative of bringing immigration down. What really got years

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twitching here was the tone of Theresa May's speech here today. She

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didn't pull any punches, said she would fight for a good deal, was

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prepared to retaliate if necessary, and that she thought no deal was

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better than a bad deal. What that means, if she does walk away, walks

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into these general international trading standards, that means

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tariffs could come in. Businesses here are very worried about that,

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and they hope it is a negotiating posture. It is a nuclear option that

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they don't want to press the button on. They beget clarity? Sum. Are we

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going to get a better idea of where we finally end up? I'm afraid not.

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Thank you, both. So, is Theresa May's vision

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of Britain's future what voters had in mind when they went to the polls

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in the EU Referendum? Our Midlands correspondent,

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Sima Kotecha, has been talking to people in Birmingham,

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which voted narrowly It's the 50-50 city,

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where half the population voted to leave the EU,

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and the other half voted to remain. Today in her speech,

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the Prime Minister said people who had voted for Brexit had done

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so with their eyes open. The country seems like it's

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slipping, slipping. We lost everything,

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everything to the European. Everything was going up and it just

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seemed to be slipping away. She confirmed the UK

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was heading for a hard Brexit, but not everybody's clear

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about what that means. Unless it's laid out

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in layman's terms, we don't She may as well just

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speak Chinese to us. You've got 16 sausage

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rolls there for a pound. At the market, locals were digesting

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the headline announcement. She's just said that the UK will be

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leaving the single market - I think things are all

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right the way it is. Personally, they are rocking

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the boat quite a lot. Diversity is a good thing,

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because you bring all kinds And the jobs that some people

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in England don't want to do, other people are happy to come

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and do it to keep the country going. The leave campaign won by a whisker

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here, fewer than 4,000 votes made the difference,

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but no matter which way people voted, the question many

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want the answer to is, We need still even more information,

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and I don't think we will fully understand until we have made that

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complete break away. Then, we will understand

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what it means. You know, at the moment,

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it's just pie in the sky, isn't it? The Prime Minister says she wants

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a smooth and orderly Brexit, In her speech today,

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the Prime Minister made a point of saying she wanted the four

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nations of the UK to have their say Let's hear now from our

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correspondents in Cardiff and Belfast, but first our Scotland

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editor, Sarah Smith. Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister

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of Scotland, responded to Theresa May's speech today by saying she

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think it is has increased the chances there will be a seconding

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referendum on Scottish independence. She said it's clear that the UK is

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heading for a hard Brexit, which they she thinks will be economically

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catastrophic and will not allow Scotland to be stem rollered down a

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path it didn't vote for. At the end of last year, the First Minister put

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together a paper outlining you how she thinks Scotland could stay in

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the single market if the UK leaves. That could only happen if the Prime

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Minister and the UK Government agrees with it. She says she doesn't

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think Theresa May is giving the proposals serious consideration and

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that is why she said she thinks the prospects spect of another vote for

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independence, she think's a prospect which is being abouting more likely.

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-- becoming more likely. Most exposed to the fallout from Brexit

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because it shares a land border with the Irish Republic. Theresa May was

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quick today to say there would be no return to the borders of the past.

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She said the common travel area would be retained. But there were

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few details as to how this would happen. Here's the question - if the

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UK wants to control immigration from the EU, how can it do that with an

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open border, with the Irish Republic? Here's another question -

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say the UK steps outside the customs union, what will that do to the

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border? Will that border become effectively a hard border? Is Wales

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voted to leave the EU despite that I think inevitable concerns today,

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economically, about what the impact could be, particularly in areas like

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manufacturing and farming, strong in Wales. Dependant on exports to the

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EU. At the National Assembly the First Minister has a problem, he

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campaigned to remain. Since Brexit he has called for full and

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unvettered access, as he calls it, to the single market. He said things

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appears to be going in the wrong direction for him. Political

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leverage is also a problem. If he complains too much, ministers at

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Westminster can turn round to him and say - they are delivering what

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the people of Wales want, which was Brexit. George. All right, Nick,

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Gavin, Sarah, thank you all. Let's speak to our political

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editor, Laura Kuenssberg, Laura, Theresa May has been

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criticised an awful lot for not saying enough about her Brexit

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plans, do you think she answered those critics today? Well, being

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clear is a prize in any argument. The eurosceptics are cock-a-hoop

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tonight. One senior Tory figure on the argument joked he could have

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written the speech himself. The remainers who have been pushing to

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hajj on to parts of the single market membership have been muted.

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Theresa May killed off some of the charges of delay, of dither, of her

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not being able to make up her mind. This clarity from today does give us

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a sense she has taken the initiative. It gives her a bit of

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breathing space in political terms. Let's be quite clear about it, one

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day this is one day, 24-hours in what will be a long, complicated

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fraught and dif process. There are people here, here inpm still, more

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importantly on the other side of the negotiating table, those 27

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countries, who believe what she is asking for is a delusion. If, as

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time comes to pass, they are proven to be right and Number Ten is proven

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to be wrong, it will be very politically and maybe economically

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painful finding out that they were right and Theresa May called it

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wrong. Lawyer thank you.

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The former Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, can now be sued

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by a Libyan man who claims that British agents helped

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the United States to kidnap and secretly remove him and his wife

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Today, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Abdel Hakim Belhaj

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to take legal action over the alleged British involvement.

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Jack Straw, who was responsible for MI6 at the time,

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Our home affairs correspondent, Tom Symonds, reports.

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Libya, 2011, Colonel Gaddafi's been toppled, and it's chaos.

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Among the files strewn across the offices of his security

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service, a document comes to light suggesting Britain played a part

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in the abduction and torture of a Libyan dissident.

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He's Abdul Hakim Belhaj, once regarded as a terror suspect.

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Now, he's been told by Britain's highest court he can sue

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MI6 and the Government, which tried to halt the case.

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The Supreme Court unanimously dismisses the Government's appeals.

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Normally, the English courts can't consider cases involving

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what foreign governments have done abroad, but in this judgment,

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the Supreme Court has concluded that that doesn't prevent the courts

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here from considering British involvement in what's happened.

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In this jail, Mr Belhaj says he was tortured after he and his

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pregnant wife were intercepted by US agents and flown to Libya.

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There have been no criminal charges but, speaking in Istanbul today,

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TRANSLATION: They've got to admit that this act,

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committed by individuals in the British Government,

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is a criminal act encroaching on our freedom and rights

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and rendering us to a regime they know is they know

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My wife was pregnant then and she was kept

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If they apologise, we will drop our demands.

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The crucial evidence could be the document found in Libya

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in which an MI6 officer appears to write to a Gaddafi

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the safe arrival of Mr Belhaj, using his alternative name,

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but also describing him as, "air cargo."

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The letter says the intelligence that led to his capture was British.

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Labour's Jack Straw, Foreign Secretary at the time

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is one of those accused, but said today he acted

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within the law and was never complicit with what might

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Britain's alleged connection with so-called rendition,

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official flights to secret prison torture destinations has never been

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Tom Symonds, BBC News, the Supreme Court.

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A brief look at some of the day's other news stories.

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An inquest has heard how concerns over security

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at a Tunisian holiday resort, where 30 Britons were killed

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by an Islamist gunman in June 2015, were raised six months before

:24:15.:24:19.

A report in January 2015, for the UK Government,

:24:20.:24:22.

suggested there was a low standard of protection at some hotel

:24:23.:24:25.

The killings were the deadliest on Britons since the

:24:26.:24:30.

The man suspected of carrying out the New Year's Eve attack

:24:31.:24:37.

on a nightclub in Istanbul has been arrested.

:24:38.:24:41.

The Uzbek national was trained in Afghanistan, according

:24:42.:24:44.

to the city's governor, and is believed to have illegally

:24:45.:24:46.

39 people died in the attack on the Reina club,

:24:47.:24:50.

A public inquiry has heard that a police marksman,

:24:51.:24:58.

who shot and killed an unarmed man, was acting on "out of date"

:24:59.:25:00.

Anthony Grainger was shot once in the chest during

:25:01.:25:04.

a Greater Manchester Police operation in Cheshire in 2012.

:25:05.:25:07.

The inquiry into his death heard that police

:25:08.:25:09.

believed he was preparing for an armed robbery.

:25:10.:25:15.

A teenager has been arrested after the body of a 16-year-old girl

:25:16.:25:18.

The girl has been named locally as Leonne Weeks,

:25:19.:25:25.

An 18-year-old, from Dinnington, is being questioned

:25:26.:25:27.

Rising air fares and food prices have helped push up UK

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inflation to its highest rate in nearly two-and-a-half years.

:25:35.:25:36.

The fall in the pound since the Brexit vote is, in part,

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Our economics correspondent, Andy Verity, is here with the details.

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You have been looking at the detail of this? That is right. Part of the

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reason that prices are going up is because of higher oil prices. They

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bounced back on the ward markets. It's also, as you mentioned, because

:25:57.:26:00.

of the weaker pound. And the weaker pound of course means if you are

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going to buy imported goods you need more pounds to buy the same number

:26:04.:26:08.

of dollars or euros to buy those imported goods. You have seen that

:26:09.:26:12.

inflationary effect of the weaker pound up the chain. It strengthened

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today. It has weakened 16%. Producer prices have risen by 16% over the

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past year. Now, they are passing on some of that effect. Those producer

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prices the prices for raw materials. It.7% is what they are charging at

:26:31.:26:33.

the factory gate. They are only putting some of that into the shops,

:26:34.:26:38.

retailers are shielding us from that. Retail prices have gone up by

:26:39.:26:43.

1.6%. Competition may play a role there. The retailers are thinking -

:26:44.:26:47.

if we raise our prices to cover the cost, business might go elsewhere.

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Competition is shielding us from the effect of the weaker pound for now.

:26:52.:26:54.

When you are being looking at petrol prices up by a tenth over the last

:26:55.:26:58.

year, they can only do that for so long. We should expect more

:26:59.:27:02.

incompetent inflation, perhaps up to 3%, over the next year. All right,

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Andy, thank you very much. -- inflation.

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Time for a look at the weather, here's Nick Miller.

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The winter weather is being turned on it is heads. The highest

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temperatures have been in Scotland. Despite the sunshine in south-east

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England this is where the lowest temperatures have been. Blue sky Bob

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was living up to his name in Kent. The sunshine in the south-east, the

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low trps. It felt cold under this area of cloud through Wales and

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Midland and into north-west England where they had outbreaks of rain on

:27:41.:27:45.

and off during the day. There will be hill fog to be found tonight,

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too. Cloud in Scotland and Northern Ireland, but mainly dry. Where you

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have cloud, temperatures will hold up. Where you are under clear skies,

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east anning Lee why and south-east England the frost will set in. Hard

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frost in rural spots. Minus 6 possible going into tomorrow

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morning. Scraping the ice off the car. After the frosty start more

:28:06.:28:09.

sunshine to come during the day tomorrow. Elsewhere, most of us will

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stay cloudy. Where you have the cloud in England and Wales damp and

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drizzly in places. Dry weather despite the cloud in Scotland and

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Northern Ireland. Rain into Shetland later. Sunshine in the Channel

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Islands. It won't feel particularly warm, nor will it despite the

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sunshine in the far south-east. A cold feeling day in the cloud across

:28:29.:28:32.

south-east Wales into the Midlands. Temperatures a little bit higher the

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further north we come. Could see brighter breaks in north-east

:28:37.:28:39.

England across eastern parts of Scotland, patchy rain heading into

:28:40.:28:42.

Shetland. Yes, in Scotland double figure temperatures again for some

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of us. Looks like a bit more cloud tomorrow evening and night across

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southernmost parts of the UK. That frost not as hard or widespread.

:28:50.:28:53.

With high pressure in control, a lot of fine, settled but cloudy weather

:28:54.:28:57.

to come going into the ebbed would, too.

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Theresa May's long-awaited speech on Brexit.

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She confirmed Britain would leave the single market and said

:29:19.:29:21.

she wanted a stronger Britain, in charge of its own laws

:29:22.:29:24.

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