Britain to start EU exit process before April, says PM
Birmingham, United Kingdom
PRIME Minister Theresa May said Britain would start the formal process for leaving the EU before April as her governing Conservative Party opened its annual conference on Sunday.
Though many Conservatives headed to the congress in Birmingham, central England still jubilant about Britain's June referendum vote to leave the European Union, the centre-right government has come under increasing pressure to define what shape Brexit will take.
Before Sunday, Ms May had only repeatedly insisted that Britain would not invoke Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty - starting a maximum two-year d…
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