就在去年9月就任首相三个月后，梅实际否定欧洲经济区选择的做法震惊了世界，她在保守党年会上宣布那些自称为“世界公民”的人其实“哪国公民也不是 ” ， 因此欧洲经济区成员资格所要求的人口自由流动完全不可接受。
It was only last September, three months after becoming prime minister, that May surprised the world by effectively ruling out the EEA option, telling the Conservative Party’s annual conference that those who call themselves “citizens of the world” are really “citizens of nowhere,” and that the free movement of people required by EEA membership was therefore unacceptable.