Greenland’s EU exit exposes Brexit timetable illusions

There’s a man in the EU who has already led a country out of the bloc. His name is Uffe Ellemann-Jensen. He’s a former foreign minister of Denmark who handled negotiations on Greenland after its citizens voted to leave the EU in 1982.

With a population of just 56,000 and a GDP of about €2.25bn, Greenland still took three years to exit.

Mr Ellemann-Jensen says any notion in Britain all it needs to do is trigger Article 50 and two years later it will be out is illusory.