With a cracked voice, David Cameron has said he’s standing down as PM following the result of the EU Referendum. Remain campaigners had an optimistic start with the first set of results coming in from Gibraltar, with a whopping 95.9% of the voters opting to stay in, but as the night went on it became clear that the Leavers had edged it.
As the value of the pound plummeted, uncertainties about the country’s economic future began to rise. Martin Schulz, the president of the European parliament, issued a statement. According to The Guardian, he said “The chain reaction being celebrated everywhere now by Eurosceptics won’t happen. Britain has just cut its ties with [the world’s biggest single] market. That’ll have consequences, and I don’t believe other countries will be encouraged to follow that dangerous path.” Meanwhile, Nigel Farage, who has been closely associated with the Leave campaign, has backtracked his claim that £350m could be saved by Brexiting and therefore spent on the NHS.
London, Scotland and Northern Ireland voted remain, as well as cities like Liverpool, Manchester and Brighton. In Nottingham, the votes, counted and announced at Harvey Hadden Sports Centre in Bilborough, gave the result of 'Leave' from a 61.82% turnout.
120,791 people cast a vote:
59,318 voted to remain
61,343 voted to leave
130 spoilt their ballot papers
No doubt there will be some big changes to come in the UK. A new prime minister is impending in a Conservative leadership contest, Nicola Sturgeon (SNP) says a second Scottish referendum is now highly likely, with Martin McGuinness (Sinn Fein) also calling for a border poll on a united Ireland, and the UK pound has hit a thirty-year low. All this, after one of the biggest exercises of democracy of our time, with overall voter turnout at 72.2%.
Get the full breakdown of Nottinghamshire’s EU Referendum results, area by area
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