EU Referendum

The United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, also known as the EU referendum and the Brexit referendum, took place on 23rd June 2016 in the United Kingdom (UK) and Gibraltar to ask the people if they wanted the country either to remain a member of or to leave the European Union (EU). The referendum resulted in a simple majority of 51.9% being in favour of leaving the EU. Although legally the referendum was non-binding, the government of that time had promised to implement the result, and it initiated the official EU withdrawal process on 29 March 2017, which put the UK on course to leave the EU by 30 March 2019, after a period of Brexit negotiations.

The Campaign

The official campaign started on On 13th April 2016, Vote Leave and Britain Stronger in Europe were designated by the Electoral Commission as the official campaigns.

Here is a selection of presentation and graphics used by the TV companies.

The Results

All the main broadcasters begin their coverage at 10pm, and continued throughout the following day.

Here is a selection of presentation and graphics used by the TV companies, from the results and aftermath.

Negotiations

Meaningful Votes

On 15th January 2019 after a month delay Theresa May finally held a vote on her Brexit deal, which sets out the terms of Britain's exit from the EU on 29 March. MPs voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the deal making it the biggest Goverment defect in history. The defeat is a huge blow for Mrs May – who has spent more than two years hammering out a deal with the EU.Shortly afterwards both Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tabled a vote of no confidence in the government, which she won the following day.Theresa May again for a second time on 12th March 2019 and third time on 26th March 2019, both were rejected. On 28th March MP's voted for eight proposed Brexit options was held in the Commons to see if a clear path could be found unfortunately, no clear majority could be found for any.

Theresa May tried again for a second time on 12th March 2019 and third time on 26th March 2019, both were rejected. On 28th March MP's voted for eight proposed Brexit options was held in the Commons to see if a clear path could be found unfortunately, no clear majority could be found for any. On 1st April Four further options were proposed, however these were also rejected, and on evening 2nd April Theresa May announced she would hold talks with Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn. However no clear path was found to move forward and the Brexit negotiations were extended to 31st October 2019.

A selection of graphics used by the TV companies.

Boris Johnson

Theresa May resigned as Conservative Party leader on 7 June 2019, and resigned as the UK Prime Minister on 24 July, after which Boris Johnson succeeded to become the new Prime Minister.

Boris's premiership has been a disaster as he failed to win his first seven votes in the House of Commons. He tried to prorogue parliament for a 5-week period but on 24th September 2019 the Supreme Court ruled against him, with a unanimous judgement from all 11 justices stating it was unlawful. During this time Johnson also lost his working majority on 3rd September 2019 and continued to see further reduction leading to Government having negative 45.

On Friday 18th October Boris and the EU finally reached a deal, which many criticised, was worse than the May Deal, The Parliament was supposed to vote on it on Saturday 19th October, some dubbed it as "Super Saturday" However an Amendment from Oliver Letwin stopped it from happening. In Mid November Parliament voted for general election to be held on 12th December 2019.

For most of October a media campaign took place with the Tagline "Get ready for Brexit" with Brexit supposedly happening on the 31st October 2019.

No clear path was found and Brexit was extended once again to 31st January 2020. Shortly afterwards an Election was finally called. The Conservative party managed to get an 80 seat Majority insuring Brexit took place on 31st January 2020, with all major channels covering the event.