Brexit: All you need to know about the UK leaving the EU

Wheeler, Alex Hunt & Brian. "Brexit: All You Need to Know about the UK Leaving the EU." BBC News, BBC, 30 Jan. 2018, www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887.

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"Britain got a new Prime Minister - Theresa May. The former Home Secretary took over from David Cameron, who announced he was resigning on the day he lost the referendum." (BBC 3)

New prime Minister after referendum

"For the UK to leave the EU it had to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty which gives the two sided two years to agree the terms of the split. Theresa May triggered this on 29 March 2016, meaning the UK is scheduled to leave on Friday 29 March 2019." (BBC 8)

What date will the UK will leave the EU?

"Article 50 is a plan for any country that wishes to exit the EU. It was created as part of the Treaty of Lisbon ' an agreement signed up to by all EU states which became law in 2009. It spell out that any EU member state may decide to quit the EU, that is must notify the European Council and negotiate its withdrawal with the EU, that there are two years to reach an agreement" (BBC 7)

What is Article 50?

"The UK has voted to leave the European Union. It is scheduled to depart at 11 pm UK time on Friday 29 March, 2019. It is the word that has become used as a shorthand way of saying the UK leaving the EU - merging the words Britain and exit to get Brexit." (BBC 1)

What is Brexit?

"It has since grown to become a "single market" allowing goods and people to move around, basically as if the member states were one country. It has its own currency, the euro, which is used by 19 of the member countries, its own parliament and it now sets rules in a wide range of areas - including on the environment, transport, consumer rights" (BBC 6)

What is the European Union?

"The European Union - ofter know as the EU - is an economic and political partnership involving 28 European countries. It began after World War Two to foster economic co-operation, with the idea that countries which trade together are more likely to avoid going to war with each other" (BBC 5)

What is the European Union?

"Immigration was also a big issue for Brexit supporters. They wanted Britain to take back full control of its borders and reduce the number of people coming here to live and/or work"

What were the reasons for wanting the UK to leave?

"They said Britain was being held back by the EU, which they said imposed too many rules on business and charged billions of pounds a year in membership fees for little in return. They also wanted the UK to make all of its own laws again, rather than being created through shared decision making with other EU nations" (BBC 9)

What were the reasons for wanting the UK to leave?

"A referendum - a vote in which everyone of voting age can take part - was held on Thursday 23 June, 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain in the EU. Leave won by 51.9% to 48.1%. The referendum turnout was 71.8%, with more than 30 million people voting." (BBC 2)

Why is Britain leaving the European Union?