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| Theresa May has insisted Brexit talks will begin next week as planned despite the upheaval caused by last week's general election. | Theresa May has insisted Brexit talks will begin next week as planned despite the upheaval caused by last week's general election. |
| Talks with the rest of the EU remain "on course", she said after a meeting with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, in Paris. | |
| Ms May has faced calls to delay negotiations with Brussels, which are scheduled to start on Monday | |
| But the Prime Minister brushed aside appeals from her opponents during a press conference in the Elysee Palace, insisting the timetable was unchanged. | |
| "We have been very clear we want to maintain a close relationship and a close partnership with the EU and individual member states into the future, including in the areas we've discussed this evening," she said. | |
| "And I confirmed to President Macron that the timetable for the Brexit negotiation remains on course and will begin next week." | |
| Ms May said last week's vote had revealed "a unity of purpose" among British voters for the Government to get on with Brexit. | |
| She said: "I think there is a unity of purpose among people in the United Kingdom. | |
| "It's a unity of purpose, having voted to leave the EU, that their Government gets on with that and makes a success of it, and we are committed to developing a deep and special partnership with the EU. | |
| "We want the EU to continue to remain strong and we want to continue to cooperate." | |
| She added there was a "willingness and intent on both sides" to secure an arrangement for Brexit and there was a "good process" for the negotiations. | |
| Mr Macron, meanwhile, said the "door remains open" to the UK staying inside the EU up until exit talks conclude. | |
| Ms May was accompanied to Paris by Home Secretary Amber Rudd, with plans to stop the internet being a safe space for terrorists under discussion. | |
| These include internet companies such as Facebook, YouTube and Google potentially being fined if they fail to remove extremist propaganda and terrorist material from their platforms. | |
| The UK and France are also to develop plans to create a new legal liability for tech companies which fail to take action against unacceptable content. | |
| And the two countries will lead joint work with internet giants to explore the potential for new tools to identify and remove harmful material automatically. | |
| Ms Rudd and French interior minister Gerard Collomb will meet in the coming days to drive the agenda forward. | |
| Ms May and Mr Macron are later due to watch the France v England football friendly international at the Stade de France, where crowds are expected to sing God Save The Queen and observe a minute's silence in honour of the victims of recent terror attacks in the UK. | |
| The gesture of solidarity comes after English football fans sang the French national anthem at Wembley following terror attacks in Paris in 2015. |