The UK can unilaterally withdraw its notification to leave the European trading bloc, according to the European Court of Justice’s most senior advisor.
The ECJ’s Advocate General Manuel Campos Sánchez-Bordona published an opinion on December 4 which stated that the UK should be able to revoke its triggering of Article 50 without first seeking permission of the European Union’s remaining 27 member states — so long as this was done within the two-year timeframe set by the exit clause.
