The United Kingdom (UK) would formally leave the European Union (EU) tonight, marking the start of an 11-month transition period for both parties to iron out new agreements that would shape their relationship in the future.
UK’s bid to leave EU since 2016, alongside other factors, have contributed to global uncertainties, and the complicated political and social events that followed the Brexit referendum have unseated two UK Prime Ministers. Boris Johnson is now leading Britain into a new era that could improve UK’s trade with Africa.
The EU’s economy would become 15 percent smaller 11 pm tonight (UK time) as its biggest member which joined in 1973 forges a new path.
