As I told EU leaders, neither side should demand the unacceptable of the other. We cannot accept anything that threatens the integrity of our union, just as they cannot accept anything that threatens the integrity of theirs. We cannot accept anything that does not respect the result of the referendum, just as they cannot accept anything that is not in the interest of their citizens.

A moving moment. She finally acknowledges the hopelessness of her self-assigned task.

Oddly, she finished the presser without resigning.


_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}