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The former UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, said that the UK government could trigger formal discussions for leaving the European Union in January, according to Bloomberg.

Farage has identified the first month of 2017 as the most likely date the British Prime Minister Theresa May to activate Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, which will start two years of talks after the Brexit.

“I do not mind that the government is spending a few more months of putting things in order. Hope we see Article 50 fired, most likely in January, “said Farage.

While Theresa May said she will not start talks before 2017 she declined to provide more clear arguments on the subject. Farage and other leading pro-Brexit warned her not to delay taking action results of its referendum in June.

“We voted to leave the European Union,” said Farge at the end of an interview with Bloomberg.

To exit the European Union (EU), the UK must invoke Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, which involves cutting final ties with the bloc, which process will take longer than two years.

Article 50 contains, however, vague details, since nobody was thinking at the time of writing that any state will want to leave the EU. Moreover, several experts told the BBC that it could take up to 10 years for Britain to be able to leave the Union.

The Lisbon Treaty entered into force in December 2009, eight years after the European leaders launched the creation “more democratic, more transparent and more efficient” of the European Union and is an agreement signed by the heads of state and prime ministers. Article 50 is part of that simple law: a very simple plan, in five points, in case a country wants to leave the Union.