Secretary of State for Exiting the EU, David Davis, is to make a
statement in the House of Commons on 30 March 2017 on legislating for
the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union
The statement is expected to start at 11.30am following the Business Question to the Leader of the House.
Timings are approximate as Parliamentary business is subject to change.
Theresa May has signed the letter that will formally begin the UK's departure from the European Union.
Giving
official notice under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, it will be
delivered to European Council president Donald Tusk at 12:30 BST on Wednesday by the British ambassador to the EU, Sir Tim Barrow.
March 2019 is the deadline for concluding negotiations.
Whether you are a Remainer or Brexiter, when we come to the end of the Brexit process we will be in a position (wrt international relations, trade etc) that neither Brexiter nor Remainer can accurately predict.
Let us therefore brace ourselves for the task in hand, knowing that for good or ill we who live in the United Kingdom are all in this together.
That means Brits, Europeans and non Europeans who reside in these islands should stand and work together for the best possible outcome and not be divided by past disagreements.
The Telegraph reports that a Whitehall shake-up is underway to make sure that saving the
Union from Scottish independence is at the heart of Brexit negotiations.
Philip Rycroft (the country’s most senior civil servant head of the UK Governance Group - tasked with defending the UK - will move into the Brexit Department), will
scrutinise every Brexit decision to make sure it does not undermine the
Union.
All very well and dandy, but at some stage a there will be a conflict between Brexit needs and Union needs.
