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UK: Headlines are suggesting that the EU court aide suggests Britain could
withdraw from Article 50 unilaterally. Assuming that this was binding, it would
mean that no EU country could veto the UK withdrawing Article 50 ahead of the
March 29 Brexit date.
- This means that if the UK wanted to it could withdraw Article 50 before March
29, re-submit another Article 50 shortly afterwards and re-set the 2-year
negotiating clock.
- This would therefore reduce the risk that the UK crashes out of the EU without
a deal as the UK has much more control over the negotiating timetable rather
than a hard deadline.
- The chances of May triggering this are likely to be very low. However, if May
was removed as PM (potentially following a loss of the Dec 11 vote), a new
leader could withdraw and re-submit Article 50 and start the negotiations all
over again. 
- Note that later today we also have parliament voting on whether the Government
was in contempt in not releasing the legal advice.

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