Hammond: 'Physically impossible' for UK to leave EU on 29 March.

Britain’s Philip Hammond Chancellor of the Exchequer appears on BBC TV’s The Andrew Marr Show in London, Britain March 17, 2019. Photo: Jeff Overs/BBC/Handout

UK chancellor Philip Hammond said it is now “physically impossible” for the UK to leave the European Union on the original 29 March, 2019 Brexit date.

Hammond said on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show that even if Members of Parliament (MPs) passed a  prime minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal over the next week, there would still need to be a extension to Article 50 in order to pass the necessary legislation and prevent a no-deal Brexit.

Article 50 is the official notification that Britain will leave the EU. Once it is triggered, it starts a two-year period where Britain negotiates with the EU on an exit deal before it legally has to leave the bloc.

By Lianna Brinded.

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