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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Jill Lawless

Britain left the EU 10 years ago. Its politics has been an unruly mess ever since

Britain Brexit Anniversary Politics - (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Brexit fractured the European Union, and broke British politics.

The U.K. is about to get its seventh prime minister since June 23, 2016, a decade ago Tuesday, when the country voted 52%-48% to leave the EU after more than four decades of membership. Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, who called the referendum but campaigned for the U.K. to stay in the bloc, quit the next day.

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