The Brexit plan, officially known as ''The United Kingdom’s exit from and new partnership with the European Union (Cm 9417)'', was a

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white paper A white paper is a report or guide that informs readers concisely about a complex issue and presents the issuing body's philosophy on the matter. It is meant to help readers understand an issue, solve a problem, or make a decision. A white pape ...

laying out the approach on the upcoming negotiations the Government was intending to take once

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had been triggered as well as laying out the new partnership once the United Kingdom had left the

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following the outcome of the

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and was published on 2February 2017 by the then

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on behalf of the

and David Davis, the then Secretary of State for the

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. The paper was published ahead of the expected

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invocation of Article 50 which took place at the end of March 2017 and a separate white paper was published outlining the governments proposals to repeal the European Communities Act 1972 and covert EU laws on the British statue book into British law.

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