UK PM May wants an implementation phase to smooth Brexit process

Omkar Godbole FXStreet Contributor

As per the Financial Times report, UK PM Theresa May has said she wants to negotiate transitional Brexit deal, that would help smooth Britain’s exit from the EU after 2019.

The FT article says, “It was the closest Mrs May has come to publicly conceding that business and governments on both sides of the English Channel would need a transitional deal to avoid the Brexit "cliff-edge" feared by companies and the City of London.”

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Omkar Godbole

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Omkar Godbole, editor and analyst, joined FXStreet after four years as a research analyst at several Indian brokerage companies.

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