But if no deal is agree upon after the two year waiting period, EU treaties will cease to apply and the UK will leave without a deal.
New Prime Minister Theresa May welcomes President of the European Council Donald Tusk to 10 Downing Street in London, Britain, September 8, 2016 (Andy Rain/Pool).
UK Prime Minister David Cameron announces his resignation on June 24, 2016, after losing a referendum to remain in the EU (Stefan Wermuth/Reuters
Boris Johnson leaves his home in Islington, north London. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian
European (Dis)integration - by Alexander Dubovsky
France's Front National leader Marie Le Pen gestures as she speaks to journalists at the FN headquarters in Nanterre, calling for referendums on EU membership in France. Photograph: Matthieu Alexandre/AFP/Getty Images
More Exits? - cartoon by Rytis Daukantas. A suitable cartoon to represent Lithuania’s leading cartoonist, who also happens to be a qualified architect. Here he is on home ground drawing the gleaming parliament building in Strasbourg and speculating on where the exit might be. Like a fetid belch from toad-faced Farage, “Brexit” is as ugly as the concept it encapsulates, followed closely by “Grexit” and “Spexit”. But “Portugexit” takes this linguistic mashup to a whole new level. “Lithuexit,” anyone?