A New Partnership with the EU Debate
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Lord Lea of Crondall
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A New Partnership with the EU
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Lord Lea of Crondall (Lab)
On that point, is it not the case that two years is not a final deadline but only an interim stage where these broad principles are agreed? Is this not putting off the final decision to a point which could simply be a total failure quite outside the Article 50 process? Where would we be then in fact?
Lord Bridges of Headley
If I understand the noble Lord correctly, the Government intend to stick by the timetable as set out in Article 50. So at the end of the two-year period, the UK will withdraw from the EU.