The Brexit Farce: Letters of 21st November 2019 to the UK Government and EU institutions

In September I asserted that the United Kingdom could not lawfully leave the European Union before September 2020.

See The Brexit Farce: The UK cannot lawfully leave the European Union before September 2020

The situation, as of today's date, is that the United Kingdom cannot lawfully leave the European Union before 24th November 2020.

In reality I do not expect the UK to be able lawfully to leave the EU in 2020.

See the new Briefing Paper in the "Brexit is doomed" series, accessible via
"Brexit (in 2020) is doomed"

On 21st November I wrote to the United Kingdom Government and to European Union figures explaining why the UK cannot lawfully leave the EU before November 2020.

In my view there have been grave failures of analysis by the UK Government and by the European Union institutions.

Copies of those letters may be accessed via the links below:

Letter of 21st November 2019 to the Prime Minister

Letter of 21st November 2019 to the Attorney General, Solicitor General and Advocate General for Scotland

Letter of 21st November 2019 to President Tusk

Letter of 21st November 2019 to President-elect Michel

Letter of 21st November 2019 to President-elect von der Leyen

The negotiation period under Article 50(3) of the Treaty on European Union needs to be extended until at least 24th November 2020.

In the above correspondence I suggested that it be extended until 31st December 2020.