‘No plans for Brexit in 2016… but we might do it anyway,’ says new UK government

‘Prime Minister Theresa May does not plan to trigger Article 50 this year, government lawyers have told the High Court, before ambiguously admitting that stance could change.
Months of uncertainty over the UK’s future relationship with the EU could be in store after government lawyers indicated Downing Street has no firm position on whether or not to withdraw from the bloc before the end of 2016.
Britain’s exit from the European Union faced its first legal challenge in the High Court on Tuesday, when lawyers representing a number of challengers argued Article 50 – the formal divorce mechanism – cannot be triggered without parliamentary consent.’
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