The United Kingdom voted on June 23, 2016 to leave the European Union. It will f...
LONDON - The United Kingdom voted on June 23, 2016 to leave the European Union. It will finally leave at 2300 GMT on Jan. 31 after what has been a tortuous road in and out of membership.
Conservative Prime Minister Harold MacMillan reversed this position in 1961 and sought membership of the EEC, saying European unity was an essential factor “in the struggle for freedom and progress throughout the world”. Her Conservative successor, John Major, had to pull sterling out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on so-called “Black Wednesday” - Sept. 16, 1992.
Seeking to shore up support in the face of party divisions and the small eurosceptic UK Independence Party , Prime Minister David Cameron promised in the party’s 2015 election manifesto to hold an “in-out” referendum on a renegotiated deal on EU membership. In a bid to gain backing for her Brexit plan, she called a snap election for June 2017. The gamble backfired. She lost her parliamentary majority and formed a minority government.
Lawmakers voted to delay Brexit again rather than risk leaving without a deal on Oct. 31, but - defying his critics’ expectations - Johnson managed to agree a new Brexit deal.
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