The UK will have to renegotiate 80,000 pages of EU
agreements, deciding those to be kept in UK law and
those to ditch.
• British offi cials have said privately that nobody knows
how long this would take, but some ministers say it
would clog up parliament for years.
• The result could take one of many variants (see Fig 1).
The most integrated model would be similar to that of
Norway – continuing access to Europe’s single market
in return for the free movement of people from EU
countries.
• Truth is NO country had invoked Article 50 since the
Lisbon Treaty in 2007. The last time a country left the EU
was Greenland in 1985, after two years of negotiation.
Caveat: Greenland has a population of 55,000 and only
one product – fi sh. A much simpler t