Brexit: UK to quit EU at 23:00 GMT, as PM promises ‘new dawn’
(BBC) The UK will leave the EU at 23:00 GMT, ending 47 years of membership.
In a video message to be released an hour earlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will call Brexit – which follows more than three years of political wrangling – a “new dawn”.
Today is the day the UK is leaving the EU. pic.twitter.com/Zuhzl0l5sT
— UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) January 31, 2020
A series of events including marches, celebrations and candlelit vigils will be held by both Brexiteers and pro-EU demonstrators.
Little will change immediately, as the UK begins a “transition period”.
Most EU laws will continue to be in force – including the free movement of people – until the end of December, by which time the UK aims to have reached a permanent free trade agreement with the EU.
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