IMF press UK, EU to move ahead with Brexit quickly

 Christine Lagarde
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“We continue to encourage the parties as soon as possible to begin the actual separation. This must be done in a predictable and efficient in order to minimize vulnerability, which increases the risk of the market,” said Lagarde.

She added that the Conservative and Labour parties had to agree on a common position on the Brexit process though now their statements indicated moves in different directions, writes the Financial Times.

“At this point in time policymakers both in the UK and in Europe are holding that level of uncertainty in their hands and how they come out in the next few days is really going to drive the direction in which risk will go,” she said at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.

“We are hearing at the moment, and I’m not inventing it, different statements going a little bit in many directions.”

“Policymakers are going to be in high demand to [act] in the most cohesive, concerted and hopefully positive way in response to the situation,” she said.

The main mechanism for withdrawal from the EU under the Lisbon Treaty is article 50. It is activated when a government officially signals (in writing) to the European Council that it wants to secede.

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