Brexit Begins
Theresa May will trigger the two-year process of leaving the European Union on March 29, No 10 has announced.
Sir Tim Barrow, the UK’s ambassador to the EU, formally notified the office of Donald Tusk, the EU Council president, with a letter on Monday morning.
On Wednesday next week, Mrs. May will formally notify Mr. Tusk by writing him a letter and then giving a statement to MPs later in Parliament.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “There will be a letter. We have always been clear we would trigger by the end of March and we have met that timetable.”
The spokesman declined to comment at this stage on the contents of the letter nor on whether there would be any further documents published next week.
No 10 said it expected a response within 48 hours from Mr. Tusk.
It comes after speculation that Mrs. May was considering calling an election before 2020, the date when one is due under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
But the Prime Minister’s spokesman said: “There is no change in our position on an early general election.” Asked what that position is, she added: “That there isn’t going to be one.
“We have been clear there is not going to be an early general election. It is not going to happen.”
The spokesman said there was a fixed term parliament act and Mrs. May was focused on “delivering the will of the British people”.
Mrs. May revealed in the run-up to her first speech as Prime Minister at the Conservative Party conference that she would trigger Article 50 no later than the end of March 2017.
However, she was accused of “losing momentum” and “making errors” by delaying the formal start of Brexit talks in the wake of Nicola Sturgeon’s surprise demand for a Scottish independence referendum.
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