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June 24, 2016. The day after the referendum, David Cameron announces his resignation.
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June 24, 2016. David Cameron announces his resignation as prime minister the day after the referendum on the EU. His decision shocks Britain: the majority assumed that David Cameron would stay and try to fix the situation the country found itself in after the historic referendum.
June 8, 2017. Theresa May after voting on Election Day 2017. Later that day, she lost a majority in parliament.
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June 8, 2017. Theresa May loses her majority in Parliament. Prime Minister Theresa May called elections in 2017 to obtain a clearer mandate in parliament. Instead, the opposite happened: it lost its small majority in the lower house and became dependent on the Protestant party of Northern Ireland DUP. This made Brexit negotiations very difficult.
March 22, 2019. The Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Bercow, four days after making a controversial decision and leading the country into a constitutional crisis.
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March 18, 2019. Lower House Speaker John Bercow makes the controversial decision to prevent Prime Minister Theresa May from voting on his Brexit deal for the third time in Parliament. The country is immersed in a constitutional crisis as businesses and households prepare for an exit from the EU. Such a drop in 2019 would have risked a serious shortage of food and medicine in the UK. Instead, Theresa May chooses to ask the EU for more time and eventually resign as Prime Minister.
Queen Elizabeth welcomed Boris Johnson as the newly elected Prime Minister on July 24 of last year.
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August 28, 2019. Queen Elizabeth II is involved in the Brexit process after new Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked her to temporarily shut down parliament for five weeks. Johnson’s decision is interpreted as a way to prevent Parliament from being more involved in Brexit. In September 2019, the Supreme Court will rule that Boris Johnson’s decision on the temporary suspension was not legal.
Boris Johnson a few days before being admitted to the covid-19 hospital in April.
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April 7-8, 2020. Boris Johnson is about to die from complications from covid-19. The prime minister finally makes a comeback, and despite being asked by many to postpone the date Britain will implement Brexit in practice, he refuses. Instead, Boris Johnson is investing everything to try to negotiate a trade deal on time, despite the pandemic and all the economic problems it has caused in the UK.
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