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EU referendum two months on: the 10 steps that led to Brexit

As the dust settles, hindsight makes the chain of events that culminated in UK’s vote to leave easier to discern

It is two months since British voters surprised themselves by deciding to end the UK’s 43-year relationship with the European Union – “independence day” to some and “the worst political decision since 1945” to others.

As stunned political leaderships on both sides of the Channel continue dithering about what to do next, it is worth looking back at the origins of a crisis the EU elite had not expected.

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Tom Watson is to make a fresh push for Labour to back a second EU referendum

In a keynote speech to the Centre for European Reform, Mr Watson (pictured) will say Labour's members and its values have always been pro-European.




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Tom Watson risks deepening Labour's divide over Brexit by calling for a second EU referendum

In a bombshell intervention deepening Labour's civil war over Europe, the deputy leader will today claim the 2016 vote was too long ago to be valid. Tom Watson will call for a second EU referendum.




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Met Police DROP investigation into Leave.EU referendum campaign

London's Met Police said they had passed a file of advice to the CPS following it's investigation. A spokesman said: 'There is insufficient evidence to justify any further criminal investigation.'




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Father has a psychotic episode 'triggered by the EU referendum'

Doctors in Nottingham had to section the man and sedate him after he was taken to hospital confused and paranoid in an episode which he described as being like daydreams.




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Middle England novel about a divided Britain in the wake of the EU referendum wins Costa prize 

Judges said Middle England by Jonathan Coe (pictured) - described as a story of nostalgia and delusion - was 'the perfect novel for now'.




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George Osborne says EU referendum should never have taken place

The pro-European former Chancellor told the BBC that Mr Cameron (pictured in the Commons together in 2016) had spent his career 'feeding the idea' that 'Brussels was to blame'.




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David Mellor calls former colleague David Cameron 'fat-headed and fatuous' for calling EU referendum

David Mellor (pictured), who was pro-Europe for much of his career but voted for Brexit in 2016, said he often woke thinking 'it would have been better if he [Mr Cameron] had never lived'.