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Didn't this happen 31st of January 2020 ? That's what wikipedia says.
by FartyMcFarter 6y ago
Didn't this happen 31st of January 2020 ? That's what wikipedia says.
- lylo 6y agoThere was a transition period through to 31 Dec 2020. That has now ended. Happy new year. :’(
- vesinisa 6y agoYup, it's the end of the transition period. But UK formally left EU 11 months ago. Unless of course the term "formally" has come to suffer similar inflation and inversion as the term "literally".
- xenocratus 6y agoI think it's confusing to some because not much changed until this transition period actually ended, so for the casual folk Brexit only just happened
- matthewmacleod 6y agoThis is technically correct - however, there were few practical changes until the end of the transition period today, and the relationship was essentially equivalent. Today is really where the relationship changes in a practical sense.
- rsynnott 6y agoDe jure, yes. However, in practice the UK remained subject to EU law and retained freedom of movement and single market access at that point. De facto, Brexit happened 90 minutes ago (I am amazed that the Tories didn’t get more upset about the fact that it the appointed hour was midnight CET, not GMT).
- dingaling 6y agoYes, and it began on 1 November 1993 when the Maastricht Treaty took effect and created the EU. But 26 years sounds less dramatic than 48.