Uncertainty clouds Brexit path as May becomes UK prime minister
Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank focused on improving EU governance, said it is in the UK's interests to delay giving its European neighbours formal notification. More time would allow the UK to better gauge its adversaries' interests and develop a negotiating strategy. "But delay too long and you could lose their goodwill, and if you lose their goodwill you won't get a good deal," he said.