June 23 marks the fifth anniversary of Britain's referendum on EU membership - timeline part 2 of 3

Record ID: 1622797

  • Title: June 23 marks the fifth anniversary of Britain's referendum on EU membership - timeline part 2 of 3
  • Date: 22nd June 2021
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK (FILE - MARCH 29, 2019) (REUTERS) MEN CARRYING UNION JACK FLAGS WALKING THROUGH WESTMINSTER PAST PARLIAMENT VARIOUS OF PROTESTER HOLDING T-SHIRT WITH UNION JACK AND 'BREXIT 2019' ON IT / FLAG DEPICTING THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SUSSEX, HARRY AND MEGHAN, WHILST PROTESTERS CHANT (English): "BYE BYE EU, BYE BYE" PRO-BREXIT PROTESTER SINGING (English): "BYE BYE EU BYE BYE" TO THE TUNE OF AULD LANG SYNE VARIOUS OF PRO-BREXIT PROTESTERS SPRAYING SWASTIKA ON EU FLAG, ONE WEARING "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" CAP, ONE WEARING YELLOW VEST WITH WRITING READING (English): "LEAVE WITH NO DEAL, STOP" BREXIT PROTESTERS CARRYING SIGN READING (English): "REMAIN MPS DICTATOR TRAITORS" / PROTESTERS PROTESTERS CHANTING (English): "MPS TRAITORS" CROWD WATCHING STAGE AND SCREEN AT RALLY HELD BY FORMER UKIP LEADER AND CURRENT BREXIT PARTY LEADER, NIGEL FARAGE FARAGE SPEAKING DURING INTERVIEW (SOUNDBITE) (English) LEADER OF THE BREXIT PARTY, NIGEL FARAGE, SAYING: "Well, today was going to be a rival for June 23 for independence day, I wasn't sure which we should've gone for. But in fact, I think today will be a national day of betrayal." MAN WITH VEST READING (English): "MARCH TO LEAVE" PLACARD READING (English): "PARLIAMENT MUST RESPECT THE PEOPLE'S VOTE TO LEAVE" (SOUNDBITE) (English) PRO-BREXIT PROTESTER FROM NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, STUART HALL, 62, SAYING: "We were expecting to celebrate our independence as a sovereign nation today, not having to virtually start again from scratch, and I feel very, very angry." VARIOUS OF PRO-BREXIT PROTESTERS MARCHING
  • Embargoed: 6th July 2021 14:16
  • Keywords: Brexit Leave Means Leave Stephen Barclay Theresa May leave protest timeline
  • Location: VARIOUS
  • City: VARIOUS
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Topics: European Union,Europe,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA002EII5S93
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: FOR PART 1 OF THE TIMELINE, PLEASE SEE EDIT 0245-BRITAIN-EU/TIMELINE-PART1
    Wednesday (June 23) marks the fifth anniversary of the day the United Kingdom voted in a referendum to leave the European Union.
    Britain's exit from one of the world's biggest trading blocs concluded on December 31, 2020, just days after it clinched a narrow Brexit trade deal with the European Union, in its most momentous global shift since the loss of empire.
    The deal, agreed more than four years after Britain voted by a slim margin to leave the bloc, put a stamp on a divorce that has shaken the 70-year project to forge European unity from the ruins of World War Two.
    Under the "EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement" Britain is no longer part of the European Union's single market and customs union, there are no tariffs or quotas on the movement of goods originating in either place between the United Kingdom and the EU.
    Prime Minister Boris Johnson cast the deal as the final implementation of the will of the British people who voted 52-48% for Brexit in a 2016 referendum
    But a continued dispute between London and Brussels over the implementation of the 2020 Brexit treaty in the British province of Northern Ireland has put at risk the historic U.S.-brokered 1998 Irish peace agreement, known as the Good Friday accord, which effectively ended three decades of violence.
    The protocol aims to keep the province, which borders EU member Ireland, in both the United Kingdom's customs territory and the EU's single market.
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