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On whether to leave with no deal or remain in the EU, if the UK looks set to leave without a deal 14–15 Mar 2019 38% 52%: 10% 14% 1,756 YouGov: Online [note 1] 14 Mar 2019: The House of Commons rejects an amendment which called for a referendum on the withdrawal agreement. 12 Mar 2019
The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, commonly referred to as the EU referendum or the Brexit referendum, was a referendum that took place on 23 June 2016 in the United Kingdom (UK) and Gibraltar under the provisions of the European Union Referendum Act 2015 to ask the electorate whether the country should continue to ...
The final result of the referendum for the United Kingdom and Gibraltar was declared at Manchester Town Hall at 0720 BST on Friday 24 June 2016, after all the 382 voting areas and the twelve UK regions had declared their results, by the Chief Counting Officer (CCO) for the referendum, Jenny Watson.
The Vote Leave campaign used a large red battle bus in the lead up to the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.A decal on the side of the bus made the false claim and following pledge that "We send the EU £350 million a week, let's fund our NHS instead", [1] accompanied with the slogan "Let's take back control". [2]
On 14 July Philip Hammond, Osborne's successor as Chancellor, told BBC News the referendum result had caused uncertainty for businesses, and that it was important to send "signals of reassurance" to encourage investment and spending. He also confirmed there would not be an emergency budget: "We will want to work closely with the governor of the ...
The EU has no framework to exclude the UK as long as Article 50 is not invoked, and the UK does not violate EU laws. [27] [28] However, if the UK were to breach EU law significantly, there are legal provisions to allow the EU to cancel membership of a state that breaches fundamental EU principles, a test that is hard to pass. [29]
Following the referendum of 23 June 2016, in which the electorate of the United Kingdom voted by 17,410,742 to 16,141,241 to leave the European Union, the United Kingdom invocation of Article 50 occurred on 29 March 2017. This set a deadline for leaving the EU of 29 March 2019 which was later extended to 31 October 2019. [1]
The UK left the European Union on 31 January 2020, with a transitional arrangement aligning the UK to EU rules ending on 31 December that year. A trade deal, the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement , setting the terms of the future relationship between the EU and UK was agreed on 24 December 2020, subject to approval by national legislatures.