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On the day after the referendum, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney held a press conference to reassure the markets, [6] and two weeks later released £150 billion in lending. [7] Nonetheless, share prices of the five largest British banks fell an average of 21% on the morning after the referendum. [8]
Several allegations of unlawful campaigning and Russian interference arose during and after the referendum. The results recorded 51.9% of the votes cast being in favour of leaving. Most areas of England and Wales had a majority for Leave, and the majority of voters in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Greater London and Gibraltar chose Remain. Voter ...
A few weeks after the referendum, an e-petition originally set up beforehand on 25 May 2016 by a member of the Leave-supporting English Democrats [failed verification] demanding it be re-run in the event that a supermajority was not reached became the most popular petition on the site, receiving 4,150,262 signatures. [13]
CHISINAU (Reuters) -A knife-edge majority of 50.17% voted "yes" in Moldova's pivotal referendum on joining the European Union, nearly final results showed on Monday, after President Maia Sandu ...
The UK Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an argument that the Scottish government can pass legislation allowing it to hold a second independence referendum next year, leaving nationalists ...
The SNP’s policy development convener said there could be another referendum after a single-issue election. Section 30 after de facto referendum would ‘honour democracy’ – top SNP member ...
In the referendum 51.89% voted in favour of leaving the EU (Leave), and 48.11% voted in favour of remaining a member of the EU (Remain). [61] [62] After this result, Cameron resigned on 13 July 2016, with Theresa May becoming Prime Minister after a leadership contest.
The economic effects of Brexit were a major area of debate [1] during and after the referendum on UK membership of the European Union. The majority of economists believe that Brexit has harmed the UK's economy and reduced its real per capita income in the long term, and the referendum itself damaged the economy.