BREXIT DAY - 697

The EU have agreed their negotiating guidelines (HERE). In what I imagine was a deliberate act, they took just four minutes to agree them and show there is complete unity among the remaining 27 members. So, it has taken one month after the Article 50 letter was sent for the EU to agree a common position. That's one month out of the twenty four allowed.  Now we are in the middle of a General Election that won't be decided until June 8th, another month gone.

Brexit DAY -727 THE EU RESPOND

The EU have now given their draft response to the Article 50 notice. The official text is HERE. What have we learned?  They are not going to negotiate a trade deal until "sufficient" progress has been made on the withdrawal agreement. I assume this means until we've agreed to pay the £50 billion or whatever the total is.

Brexit DAY - 729, ARTICLE 50 IS FINALLY INVOKED. the European Commission must be relieved that we have at last started the clock ticking