The UK can’t secure Brexit by March 2019 – it will need an EEA-style deal

Over five months on from the UK’s referendum, it is still unclear what sort of Brexit deal the British government intends to seek. Jim Gallagher writes that Article 50 will be triggered in March without a coherent or deliverable plan. He argues that this means neither the UK or the EU are likely to be able to implement a bespoke Brexit arrangement by the deadline of March 2019. An interim EEA-style deal for the UK is therefore the most likely outcome from the Article 50 process.