Brexit: UK to quit EU today at 23:00, as PM Boris Johnson promises 'new dawn'

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hail the "dawn of a new era" later, as the UK prepares to leave the European Union after 47 years. In a video message to be shown at 22:00 GMT - an hour before the official departure time - he will say Brexit is "not an end but a beginning".


Brexit Party MEPs left the European Parliament led by a bagpiper

He will describe severing ties with the other 27 EU nations as "a moment of real national renewal and change". Little will change immediately, as the UK begins a "transition period".
Most EU laws will continue to be in force - including the free movement of people - until the end of December, by which time the UK aims to have reached a permanent free trade agreement with the EU.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urged the country not to "turn inwards" and instead "build a truly internationalist, diverse and outward-looking Britain".
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We must be united in a common vision for our country, however great our differences on achieving it - a common hope for what we want to happen, and what we want to do in the years to come."

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