It's interesting, because we were just talking about that today.
They seem very keen, but if I may be blunt, I've spent quite a bit of time here recently and I think they're struggling to understand what Brexit means. I'm encountering all kinds of discussions among individuals who seemingly don't understand the differences between a soft and a hard Brexit, a soft Brexit being some kind of arrangement that keeps it in the single market and a hard Brexit including unilateral removal from the EU and going back to the WTO schedules.
My thinking is it's more aspirational than real at this stage. I think they have a two-year window, once they invoke article 50, if indeed they are even able to. The initial comments of the courts in England were that this has to be voted on in Parliament.
My personal view is that in the two-year time frame they have, if they could only get through the list of directives in the EU and prioritize which ones they would like to keep and which ones they maybe do not wish to keep, and if they could just commence negotiations, they'd be doing well.
I think their backs are really up against a wall. They are interested, but I think it's a very long-term and more aspirational goal.