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Brexit: Why it happened

31.01.2020 15:48
Initially scheduled for March 2019, Brexit was postponed several times until the British Parliament formed after the victory of Boris Johnson’s Conservatives in early elections finally approved the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, which set January 31 as the day of the divorce.
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Union Jacks on display in front of the Houses of Parliament in London on Friday
Union Jacks on display in front of the Houses of Parliament in London on Friday Photo: EPA/ANDY RAIN

Talking to Polish Radio's London correspondent Adam Dąbrowski, historian and writer Alwyn W Turner of the University of Chichester in Britain offers some background about how Brexit has come about, and to what extent it was connected with the rise of Euroscepticism on the continent.