No 10: Tusk's claim Article 50 in January is an 'interpretation'

Downing Street has insisted that the EU Council president's claim that Article 50 will be triggered early next year is only his "interpretation". Donald Tusk let slip, at a summit in Bratislava, that Theresa May wants to begin the formal process to extract Britain from the EU by February 2017. Speaking about his meeting with the PM, Mr Tusk told a summit news conference: "Prime Minister May was very open and honest with me.