The UK has officially left the European Union, so what happens now?
The move marks an end to three years of bitter debate ever since the result of the June 2016 referendum in which the UK voted to leave by 52 per cent to 48.
It will also lose decision-making ability on the European Council and inside the European parliament, with members no longer taking their seats. From early 2020, new blue British passports will be issued alongside the current burgundy ones without the European Union wording on them. By mid-2020, all UK passports will be blue.
During this time the status quo will remain, with Britain remaining part of the EU single market and customs union. The PM will have until July 1 to ask for an extension to the transition period; however, Mr Johnson has already ruled this out. “We definitely see this as a turning of the page and are looking forward to forging even stronger ties in future,” he told the Foreign Press Association in London.
Also at stake is the fundamental issue of the EU single market and whether Britain can have access to this without accepting things like freedom of movement, which it has ruled out. “We have no time to lose with any polemics and to use this time to rebuild this friendship, this relationship.”
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