{"id":21254,"date":"2016-06-25T08:28:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T13:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21254"},"modified":"2016-06-25T08:28:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T13:28:31","slug":"british-exit-from-eu-not-inevitable-despite-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21254","title":{"rendered":"British Exit From EU Not Inevitable, Despite Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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British Exit From EU Not Inevitable, Despite Referendum<\/a><\/h3>\n
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IN THE FIRST HOURS\u00a0after the British public voted to exit the European Union, amid all sorts of triumphal statements and recriminations, one declaration was notably absent: the formal notification to the EU that the United Kingdom intends to leave the organization, which is required to start the clock on negotiations for a departure.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Prime Minister David Cameron, who led the failed campaign to convince voters to stay in the EU,\u00a0told the public<\/a>\u00a0that an exit would not happen soon, as he intended to resign in three months and leave it to his successor to decide \u201cwhen to trigger Article 50\u2033 of the union\u2019s basic agreement, the Lisbon Treaty, which says that a member state has two years after declaring its desire to leave to negotiate the terms of its exit.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/span>David Allen Green<\/span>\u00a0@DavidAllenGreen<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Has Article 50 been invoked yet?http:\/\/<\/span>hasarticle50beeninvoked.uk\/\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1:53 PM – 24 Jun 2016<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Speaking to the press a short time later, the man considered most likely to be prime minister in October, Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London, also seemed in no hurry to get the process started.<\/p>\n