UK to trigger Brexit on March 29, starting two years of talks

Theresa May has until the end of 2018 to agree with the terms of break-up

Prime Minister Theresa May will file divorce papers to leave the European Union (EU) on March 29, launching two years of complex negotiations that will pit the UK’s desire for a trade deal against the bloc’s view that Britain must not benefit from Brexit.
 
More than 40 years after the UK joined the EU and nine months since it voted to leave, Britain’s envoy to the bloc, Tim Barrow, informed EU President Donald Tusk on Monday of May’s plan to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the mechanism for quitting that has never been used.
 
At stake