UK government to discuss Brexit implementation period later this year - minister

 

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Secretary of State for Business, Greg Clark, arrives in Downing Street for a cabinet meeting, in central London, Britain July 18, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo

 

BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Britain's business minister said the government will discuss later this year how a transitional period after Brexit might work, a key demand for businesses worried about a cliff-edge exit at the end of two-year talks in March 2019.

 

Many companies have urged the government to push the European Union to agree a clear and lengthy transitional arrangement to help them make investment decisions and continue the unfettered flow of British exports to the continent.

 

When asked when the government would set out what kind of transitional arrangement it would be seeking, Greg Clark said:

"During the autumn ... and as the negotiations move forward, we hope from their initial discussion, then that's the time to say more about that," he said during an event in Birmingham.

 

(Reporting by William James; writing by Costas Pitas in London; editing by Kate Holton)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-07-25

A post with the aberrant spelling of a politician's name has been remove.   Such name-calling is trolling and will result in a suspension if it continues.  

Jolly decent of them. Later this year, no rush, not as if the clock is ticking or anything like that. Wonder if Theresa is "mum" when they stop for tea!

Should be an interesting Autumn.  Right now it is summer hols time though and their thoughts turn to ice cream and tantrums on the beach rather than in Downing Street.

EU are standing by their guns (and so they should) UK on-the-other-hand, have to work out how to pay the EU (first), then discuss the other demands (set by the EU), before negotiations can even continue. It's looking pretty bad for 'little' Britain. 

24 minutes ago, the guest said:

EU are standing by their guns (and so they should) UK on-the-other-hand, have to work out how to pay the EU (first), then discuss the other demands (set by the EU), before negotiations can even continue. It's looking pretty bad for 'little' Britain. 

To coin a phrase "You make your bed and then you have to lie in it!"  I would say that it is some lumpy mattress!

I don't like Brexit one bit, and I rue Britain leaving the EU. But I realize Brexit being the one sensible thing to do as things stand, with hordes of so-called refugees beleaguering Britain at Calais and the prospect of a million plus mostly Muslim newly fangled EU-citizens wanting legal entry. The EU has so far been a splendid idea bringing about the much-vaunted unprecedented era of peace in Europe, you might blame that on NATO as well, doesn't make any difference. Just things got out of hands with the ECJ as a "motor" of integration, where nation states ended upü much surprised with what they supposedly had signed up to, and the ECHR likewise conjuring up rulings on supposed rights with no democratic backing. So it's a good thing Britain is getting out of that, will set an example for other states, the old Habsburg union first and foremost, which might, hopefully will, lead to sweeping reforms with regards to both EU and the ECHR, and things eventually falling into place. And Britain somehow staying in there or coming back in after what is promised to be a rather rough ride, but just temporary.

 

On 7/25/2017 at 1:22 PM, the guest said:

EU are standing by their guns (and so they should) UK on-the-other-hand, have to work out how to pay the EU (first), then discuss the other demands (set by the EU), before negotiations can even continue. It's looking pretty bad for 'little' Britain. 

 

One can only guess that people who make these types of daft posts are Britain-haters. The childish and nonsensical " 'little' Britain" aside probably gives this one away .