Here is an easy-to-understand guide to Brexit - beginning with the basics, then a look at the negotiations, followed by a selection of answers to questions we've been sent. What's happening now? The UK has voted to leave the European Union. It is scheduled to depart at 11pm UK time on Friday 29 March, 2019. read more
A referendum - a vote in which everyone (or nearly 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 European Union. Leave won by 51.9% to 48.1%. The referendum turnout was 71.8%, with more than 30 million people voting. read more
Straw: Yes. Some people in the Labour Party would say we should leave the EU. But most people would say we should stay in. The Liberal Democrats would say that, too. The European: In 1997, Tony Blair said that Great Britain has to be at the heart of Europe. read more