As Conservative conference begins, we are finally starting to find out a little more about what Brexit means. But only a little. In her interview on Marr this morning, Theresa May confirmed that she would trigger Article 50, which starts the process of taking Britain out of the European Union, before the end of March 2017. She said:
‘I’ve been saying that we wouldn’t trigger it before the end of the year so that we get some preparation in place. But yes, I will be saying in my speech today that we will trigger before the end of the March next year.’
But when it came to hard vs soft Brexit, the Prime Minister was rather more coy, merely repeating what she had said on the British people voting for controls on immigration in the referendum. It will be rather more difficult to be this vague even for the rest of the conference now that May has suggested that the government knows what it wants to do by setting a deadline for Article 50.
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