Skip to content
- The Daily Express became the first national newspaper to declare Britain must leave the EU in November 2010.
- Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch are among the Brexit heavyweights who have backed the campaign.
- The “Give Us a Proper Brexit” crusade calls for leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), slashing red tape for businesses and enforcing a 12-mile exclusion zone around the UK for British vessels only.
- The UK is already lining up with Brussels on some rules for food and agriculture to allow access to the European economic trading zone.
- The UK formally left the EU single market and customs union at 11pm on December 31, 2020. It followed a June 2016 referendum where 17.4 million people voted to leave the EU, with a split of 52% versus 48%.
