Boris Johnson said yesterday that Britain should “get on” with leaving the EU, stressing that Article 50 should be triggered at the start of next year.
The foreign secretary gave the broadest hint so far that Theresa May will trigger the legal process for Brexit in the first four months of 2017, meaning that the subsequent two-year exit talks end before the next EU elections.
“What we want to do is not do it by Christmas but obviously we can’t let the process drag on. If you think about it, you know, there’s obviously Euro elections coming down the track,” Mr Johnson told The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One.
“I think people will be wondering whether we want to be sending a fresh batch
