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So it looks as if there could be a second legal challenge to the government’s decision to leave the EU. British Influence, the pro-European group, is arguing that while people voted in the referendum to leave the EU, that is not the same as leaving the European Economic Area (a slightly wider group, including three other countries in the single market but not in the EU), and it is threatening to go to court over the issue. My colleague Anushka Asthana has the details here.
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MPs and peers are having a say at the moment. We had a debate just last week on Brexit and how it affected the future in Britain. Ministers like David Davis, who heads the [Brexit] department, are regularly subject to questioning in the Commons. It is right that parliament should be involved in tracking the negotiations. But what we are not going to do is open up our entire negotiating hand, precisely because it concerns a lot of the complexities of the sort we are going to be discussing with the Polish delegation today.
There is no delay. We have already announced we are going to start the negotiations by triggering the famous article 50 next spring, and those negotiations are prescribed in the treaty lasting two years.
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