24-05-2018 15:14 via uk.news.yahoo.com

No extra time; UK says Brexit transition will end in December 2020

LONDON/DUBLIN (Reuters) - Britain will end its implementation period with the European Union after Brexit in December 2020, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday, denying a media report that the government was seeking a new transition until 2023.The spokeswoman repeated Britain's stance that the transition period would end in December 2020 after The Times newspaper reported that May would propose another transition covering customs and trade to run from 2021 until 2023 to
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