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As the largest constituent country within the United Kingdom, England provided the largest share of 'Leave' voters, 15,188,406 to 'Remain's' 13,266,996, and saw the largest margin of victory for 'Leave' at 53.4% to 46.6% slightly larger than the 52.5% to 47.5% leave result produced by Wales.
The Vote Leave campaign argued that if the UK left the EU, national sovereignty would be protected, immigration controls could be imposed, and the UK would be able to sign trade deals with the rest of the world. The UK would also be able to stop membership payments to the EU every week.
In its May 2016 Inflation Report the Bank of England said that a vote to leave the European Union might trigger a recession. [5] [6] Think tank, Open Europe claims the most likely permanent effect on annual gross domestic product by 2030 upon leaving would range from −0.8% to +0.6%, but notes +1.6% is possible under widespread deregulation. [4]
With a turnout of just under 65%, the outcome of the vote was 67.2% in favour of staying in, and the United Kingdom remained a member of the EEC. [13] Support for the UK to leave the EEC in 1975, in the data, appears unrelated to the support for Leave in the 2016 referendum. [14]
The third largest party on the British left is the Green Party of England and Wales, whose membership reached over 54,000 in 2021; [48] following the most recent general election the Greens have 4 MPs.
The two main anti-EU campaigns during the UK referendum on EU membership were Vote Leave and Leave.EU, both of which received limited support from Nigel Farage, leader of the UK's largest Eurosceptic political party. [43] Vote Leave was a cross-party group working with the campaigns Labour Leave, Conservatives for Britain and Business for ...
Vote Leave was [1] a campaigning organisation that supported a "Leave" vote in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. [2] On 13 April 2016 it was designated by the Electoral Commission as the official campaign in favour of leaving the European Union in the Referendum.
A majority of voters supported the UK leaving the European Union, with 51.9% voting in favour of leaving and 48.1% in favour of remaining. Cameron resigned, and was succeeded by Theresa May and, later, Boris Johnson, both of whom negotiated the terms of the UK's departure.