Battle line drawn as Mrs. May insists Britain must remain part of the EU single market

British Prime Minister, Theresa May has once again reiterated that the country would explore every possible avenue available to keep UK in the EU’s single market. Though the British people have voted to take full control immigration.

Today’s Prime Minister's Questions happened to be the very first since the Conservatives and Labour held their party conferences, as Mrs May and Jeremy Corbyn traded insults, mostly over Brexit.

"What we are going to do is be ambitious in our negotiation, to negotiate the best deal for the British people and that will include the maximum possible access to the European market for firms to trade with and operate within," Mrs May told the Commons.

"I'm also clear that the vote of the British people said we should control the movement of people from the EU into the UK, and ... we believe we should deliver on what the British people want."

On the contrary, a spokesman for Angela Merkel reiterated in Berlin that the German Chancellor's long-standing position on the issue of access to the single market is very important as well the EU.

"A key assertion of the Chancellor in the last months has … always been that full participation in the EU internal market means that the country that wants such participation must also fully subscribe to the free movement of people", said Steffen Seibert.

Mrs May also denied that a Government plan to make companies list foreign workers was a case of "naming and shaming".

Mrs. May came under recurrent attack by Mr Corbyn, as the Opposition leader at one point saying she risks a "shambolic Tory Brexit" to calm down her backbenchers.

"This is a Government which drew up no plans for Brexit, that now has no strategy for negotiating Brexit and offers no clarity, no transparency and no chance of scrutiny of the process for developing a strategy," he said.

On his part, the Brexit minister, David Davis, stated that Britain is not yet in a position to give details of what it wants from the negotiations beyond its "overarching aims".

"The overarching aims are these: bringing back control of laws to parliament, bringing back control over decisions of immigration to the UK, maintaining the strong security cooperation that we have with the European Union and establishing the freest possible market in goods and services with the European Union and the rest of the world," he said.