19 Facts About Brexit

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Brexit was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020 .

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Brexit sought to replace parts of the agreement and vowed to leave the EU by the new deadline.

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Brexit's influenced Daniel Hannan, who in 1990 founded the Oxford Campaign for Independent Britain; "With hindsight, some see this as the start of the campaign for Brexit", the Financial Times later wrote.

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The first alternative offered was that if MPs rejected May's deal in the next week, Brexit would be due to occur by 12 April 2019, with, or without, a deal—or alternatively another extension be asked for and a commitment to participate in the 2019 European Parliament elections given.

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The Brexit Party was the only major party running for election which wanted the UK to leave the EU without a deal.

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Since then, opinion polls tended to show a plurality of support for remaining in the EU or for the view that Brexit was a mistake, with the estimated margin increasing until a small decrease in 2019 .

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Brexit's added that negotiations were being accelerated to try and reach a deal that could be ratified by the end of the year.

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Many effects of Brexit depended on whether the UK left with a withdrawal agreement, or before an agreement was ratified .

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Economists expected that Brexit would have damaging immediate and longer term effects on the economies of the UK and at least part of the EU27.

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10.

Studies found that Brexit-induced uncertainty reduced British GDP, British national income, investment by business, employment and British international trade from June 2016 onwards.

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In December 2020, Spain and the UK reached an agreement in principle on future arrangements for Brexit and invited the European Commission to formalise it as a treaty.

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Brexit caused the European Union to lose its second-largest economy, its third-most populous country, and the second-largest net contributor to the EU budget.

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Brexit allows the UK to develop its own agriculture policy.

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14.

Brexit poses challenges to British academia and research, as the UK loses research funding from EU sources and sees a reduction in students from the EU.

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15.

EU and EEA citizens already living in the UK can continue living there after Brexit by applying to the EU Settlement Scheme, which began in March 2019.

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Concerns were raised by European lawmakers, including Michel Barnier, that Brexit might create security problems for the UK given that its law enforcement and counter-terrorism forces would no longer have access to the EU's security databases.

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Brexit was widely described as a factor contributing to the 2021 United Kingdom natural gas supplier crisis, in which panic buying led to serious disruption of road fuel supplies across the UK, as it exacerbated the UK's shortage of HGV drivers.

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Brexit has inspired many creative works, such as murals, sculptures, novels, plays, movies and video games.

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The response of British artists and writers to Brexit has in general been negative, reflecting a reported overwhelming percentage of people involved in Britain's creative industries voting against leaving the European Union.

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