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Britain has voted to leave the European Union , forcing the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron and dealing the biggest blow to the European project of greater unity since World War Two. The pound fell more than 10 percent against the dollar to levels last seen in 1985, its biggest one-day fall in history, on fears the decision could hit investment in the world's fifth-largest economy, threaten London's role as a global financial capital and usher in months of political uncertainty.
Instability in Europe and beyond is providing "fertile terrain for reactionary politicians and demagogues," Vice President Joe Biden will caution during remarks in Ireland on Friday. Listing global irritants like mass migration, terrorism, climate change, Biden will say those factors are leading to leaders "peddling xenophobia, nationalism, and isolationism."
He refused to give an exact time table for his departure, but said that he wanted a new leader to be in place by October when his Conservative Party holds its annual conference. In his statement, delivered outside the front door of 10 Downing St., he said that "the British people have voted to leave the EU and their will must be respected... the will of the British people is an instruction which must be delivered."
Britain has voted to leave the European Union, results from Thursday's landmark referendum showed, a stunning repudiation of the nation's elites that deals the biggest blow to the European project of greater unity since World War Two. World financial markets plunged as nearly complete results showed a 51.8/48.2 percent split for leaving.
Today's victory for the Leave campaign in the U.K.'s referendum on European Union membership will roil business, markets and politics. Below is a sampling of some of the likely winners and losers from the vote.
Prime Minister David Cameron may go down in history as the man who led Britain out of the European Union, but his political defeat in the Brexit referendum means there is a strong chance he will not be around by the time it all becomes official. As Britain voted to become the first state ever to withdraw from the bloc on Thursday, Cameron's epitaph may have been sealed after six years in power.
The Leave campaign will win the UK referendum on EU membership, CNN predicts. With more than 98% of districts reporting, there are not enough votes left uncounted to change the result.
A majority of voters in the United Kingdom of Great Britain have decided to break up with the European Union, British mass media outlets are projecting, stunning financial markets and pundits who had predicted a victory for the Remain campaign when all was said and done. At around midnight Eastern time and 9 PM Pacific, the Leave side had a lead of over 700,000 votes, and was winning handily in England and Wales, but losing Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Gibraltar.
LONDON, June 23 Britons were voting on Thursday to decide the future of their country and Europe in a referendum on European Union membership that has divided the nation and is being nervously watched by financial markets and politicians across the world. Prime Minister David Cameron called the vote under pressure from his ruling Conservative Party and an increasingly powerful anti-EU party, hoping to put to rest decades of debate over Britain's place in Europe and its ties with Brussels.
Much will depend on turnout, with younger Britons seen as more supportive of the European Union than their elders but less likely to vote. ritons will decide the future of their country and Europe on Thursday in a vote on European Union membership after a bitter campaign that appeared to divide the nation down the middle.
Citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will vote Thursday on the U.K.'s membership of the European Union. Economists, politicians and people from all over the world forecast that a vote for Britain to leave the E.U., known as 'Brexit' would be catastrophic for Britain and could create economic and political shockwaves that could crash through Europe and onto the U.S. and the rest of the world.
After five years in coalition, the Conservatives won a surprise clear majority in the May 2015 general election, allowing them to rule alone. After years of seeing his premiership buffeted by rows over Europe, British Prime Minister David Cameron faces his day of reckoning for country and career in Thursday's EU referendum.
Decisions made across the Atlantic Ocean often seem worlds away to most Americans. But in today's increasingly globalized world, votes such as the June 23 referendum in the United Kingdom deciding whether to leave the European Union can have a significant impact on the United States - and here on the Seacoast.
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump will visit the United Kingdom on June 24, the day that final results from the highly anticipated "Brexit" vote are expected to be tallied. Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks confirmed that Trump will travel to Scotland on the 24 to visit the Turnberry Golf Resort, a property he has been working to open since buying the Turnberry hotel in 2014.