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Kenneth Armstrong’s “neutral” study of Brexit sounds a powerful warning

It's theme of "time" is a little forced. But Brexit Time: Leaving the EU—Why, How and When? offers valuable insight from an expert in the field

By Alex Dean  
September 13, 2017
October 2017

Brexit time—get it? Kenneth Armstrong's new book focuses on the timing of EU withdrawal.

“The aim of Brexit Time is to explore why, how and when the UK is leaving the European Union,” writes Kenneth Armstrong in his new book. This is clearly no small task: is the author up to it? As the Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies at Cambridge, he is certainly well qualified.

Armstrong sums up the Brexit debate from the time before the referendum to more or…

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