‘Hard Brexit so painful Britons may never pull out of EU’ – European Council chief

‘Britain may back down from leaving the EU when it realizes how “painful” Brexit will be, European Council President Donald Tusk has predicted.
Tusk told a Brussels-based think-tank that nobody in Europe would benefit from Britain’s departure and the only “real alternative” to a so-called ‘hard Brexit’ is if the UK doesn’t leave the EU at all.
“The only real alternative to a hard Brexit is no Brexit, even if today hardly anyone believes in such a possibility,” he said on Thursday night.’
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