"You invoke Article 50 in the early part of next year. You have two years to pull it off. I don't actually think we will necessarily need to spend a full two years but let's see how we go." He is quoted as saying.
And he rejected the claims made by EU leaders that Britain cannot have access to the European single market unless it accepts free movement of migrants. “Complete baloney, absolute baloney,” he said. “The two things have nothing to do with each other and we should go for a jumbo free trade deal and take back control of our immigration policy“.
In BoJo world you can opt to leave an organisation but still retain the right to tell them what to do. To EU leaders it must seem like they will be negotiation with the deaf and blind.
Some officials and politicians say that the unprecedented negotiations will take much longer than two years and I think they're right. He may be used to rattling off newspaper columns at the last minute but international treaties they are not.
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