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EU leaders have set up a titanic showdown with Theresa May after they rushed to dismiss key UK demands within hours of the historic Article 50 letter being delivered.
In a day of high political drama, the Prime Minister was cheered to the rafters by Tory MPs in the Commons as she declared that her envoy Sir Tim Barrow had handed the formal Brexit notification to European Council president Donald Tusk in the Belgian capital.
Read more: Article 50: Brexit could be ?painful? warns EU leaders | Daily Mail Online
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It's real, and it's spectacular.
Hopefully more of Europe follows the same path.
And from another source: Article 50 live: UK hands in Brexit 'divorce letter'
Article 50 live: UK hands in Brexit 'divorce letter'
Article 50 trigger day key points
•PM's Article 50 notification letter is delivered to European Council President Donald Tusk in Brussels
•Theresa May tells MPs in the Commons: "This is an historic moment from which there can be no turning back."
•Angela Merkel rejects UK demand for parallel talks on exiting the union and a trade deal
•Sky Data poll finds half of Britons happy about EU divorce process starting