For Leavers, there’s only one more sleep before Christmas: tomorrow Tim Barrow will moonlight as a courier and hand-deliver Theresa May’s letter triggering Article 50 to Donald Tusk and Britain’s Brexit talks will start.
Well, sort of. That we’re pulling the trigger in the middle of, among other things, the French elections means that the EU27 won’t meet to discuss May’s exit proposals for another month. (So that’s one of 23 out of 24 gone!)
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