Daily Star

EU exit by next election

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LIAM Fox has insisted it is “not a huge deal” if transition­al arrangemen­ts for Brexit last up until 2022.

But the Internatio­nal Trade Secretary said he believed people did not want it “dragging on” so long.

He told BBC One’s The Andrew Marr Show: “Having waited for over 40 years to leave the European Union, 24 months would be a rounding error. It’s not a huge deal and neither is it an ideologica­l one.

“I think we would want to get it out of the way before the election.”

But the Federation of Germany industry, the BDI, warned against a long transition­al deal.

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