Image copyright Downing Street This year"s EU referendum “laid bare some further divisions in our country”, Theresa May has said.
In her first new year message as prime minister, Mrs May called for unity following June"s “divisive” vote, ahead of negotiations on the UK"s exit from the EU.
She said: “If 2016 was the year you voted for that change, this is the year we start to make it happen.”
Mrs May also quoted MP Jo Cox, who was killed a week before the EU referendum.
The prime minister said in December she would set out her proposals for a “truly global Britain” in a speech on Brexit in the new year.
She has pledged to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, getting leaving talks with the EU under way, by the end of March.
These can take up to two years, unless an agreement is reached to prolong the process.
"Golden opportunity"In her new year message, Mrs May said: “I know that the referendum last June was divisive at times.
“I know, of course, that not ev..
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