According to CNN, British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday
that the U.K. would begin the formal process of leaving the European Union by the end of March 2017. That means Brexit could happen in 2019.
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, May said: "The people have spoken; we will deliver on that."
Britain would trigger Article 50 of the EU treaty in the first quarter of next year, she said. That act will start the clock on two years of exit negotiations with the other 27 members of the group.
This is the first time since the Brexit vote in June that the British government has set out a clear timetable for the hugely complex task of unwinding its 40-year relationship with the U.K.'s biggest trading partner.
May also said she would ask lawmakers to pass a bill incorporating all EU laws into British laws that would take effect the moment Britain leaves the union. That legislation would mean the U.K. can decide which European laws to keep.

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