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Brexit by 2019, EU parliament negotiator urges

Published Tue, Sep 13, 2016 · 09:50 PM

Strasbourg, France

BRITAIN should trigger its divorce from the EU as soon as possible and formally leave by 2019, the European Parliament's chief Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt said on Tuesday.

Mr Verhofstadt, a former Belgian prime minister, also warned London that it could only keep access to the prized single market by accepting the free movement of all European Union citizens into Britain.

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