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Author: BAGEHOT
Today is Brexit Day at the Conservative Party Conference, and Theresa May opened the meeting with two major announcements about the UK’s next steps towards leaving the EU. First, she intends to include a “Great Repeal Bill” in next year’s Queen’s Speech. This will repeal, from the perspective of Brexit, the European Communities Act (ECA) 1972, which brought the UK into the EU and introduced European law into the UK legal system. Second, she will trigger Article 50 (the two-year process by which the UK will negotiate the terms of its withdrawal from the EU) by the end of March 2017. This is earlier than some expected, as it occurs before the French and German elections in May and September, and before the next Queen’s Speech. The Prime Minister is under pressure from die-hard Brexiteers – a group led by Iain Duncan Smith who has just published his Blanket requirements This amounts to a reckless drive to leave the EU quickly and thoroughly, with these two promises as evidence that the process is finally starting to turn.
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