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Brexit: The clock is ticking

17 May 2020 / David Greene
Issue: 7888 / Categories: Opinion , Brexit , Constitutional law
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With the end of June deadline on the horizon & COVID-19 dominating national agendas, the EU & UK must soon decide on whether to extend the transition period or not…David Greene reports

Four years on from the Referendum and we are coming to crunch time for our future relationship with the EU after the UK’s departure from the EU at the end of January 2020. By the end of June the EU and UK have to conclude whether they want an extension to the transition period or not. Absent an extension, a very limited agreement between the UK and EU looks likely but no agreement at all remains a severe possibility.

It is now three months since we left the EU. Sadly, life and death have intervened in the form of COVID-19 and this is a changed world from that which saw us formally depart the single market. Timetables were then set without the foresight of the crisis that has engulfed the world. Under that timetable we departed the EU with

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