On 23 June 2016, the UK held a referendum on its membership of the EU, with a majority voting in favour of the UK leaving the EU, a process known as Brexit.
On 29 March 2017, the UK government served formal notice under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) to terminate the UK’s membership of the EU.
Negotiations between the UK and the EU relating to the withdrawal of the UK commenced in June 2017 and culminated in the Withdrawal Agreement, an international treaty implemented in domestic law by the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020.
As of exit day (11 pm on 31 January 2020) the UK ceased to be an EU Member State. The UK initially entered an implementation period during which the UK continued to be treated by the EU as a Member State for many purposes.
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