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By Emma Ross-Thomas

October 2, 2017 at 3:22 PM UTC

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October 2, 2017 at 6:51 PM UTC

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Britain will have to ask the European Union for two back-to-back transition deals to ease its exit in 2019, according to Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform research institute.