According to BBC news , people that voted EU out won by 52% to 48% who voted EU in! England and Wales voted strongly for Brexit, while London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backed staying in the EU.The referendum turnout was 71.8% - with more than 30 million people voting - the highest turnout at a UK election since 1992.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage hailed it as the UK's "independence day" but the Remain camp called it a "catastrophe". And it is starting to look like a catastrophe as 'pounds' fell to its lowest level against the dollar since 1985 . As a result of this , Labour's chancellor John McDonnell suggested that, the Bank of England may have to intervene to shore up the pound, which lost 3% within moments of the first result showing a strong result for Leave in Sunderland and fell as much as 6.5% against the euro. Read more below!!!
UKIP leader Nigel Farage - who has campaigned for the past 20 years for Britain to leave the EU - told cheering supporters "this will be a victory for ordinary people, for decent people". Mr Farage - who predicted a Remain win at the start of the night after polls suggested that would happen - said Thursday 23 June would "go down in history as our independence day".
UKIP leader Nigel Farage - who has campaigned for the past 20 years for Britain to leave the EU - told cheering supporters "this will be a victory for ordinary people, for decent people". Mr Farage - who predicted a Remain win at the start of the night after polls suggested that would happen - said Thursday 23 June would "go down in history as our independence day".
But pro-Leave Conservatives including Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have signed a letter to Mr Cameron urging him to stay on whatever the result. Former Europe Minister Keith Vaz told BBC that British people had voted with their "emotions" and rejected the advice of experts who had warned about the economic impact of leaving the EU.
He said the EU should call an emergency summit to deal with the aftermath of the vote, which he described as "catastrophic for our country, for the rest of Europe and for the rest of the world". Germany's foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier described the referendum result as as "a sad day for Europe and Great Britain". And I'm sure a lot of people would agree with this statement . Did Britain make the right decision ? Could this be the beginning of a historic downfall ?
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