“It’s in Britain’s interest and in the interest of Europeans not to have a period of uncertainty that would have financial consequences, and that could have economic and political consequences”, Ayrault added.
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Meanwhile, Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon said her semi-autonomous administration would start immediate talks with the European Union to ensure Scotland could remain in the bloc despite the United Kingdom -wide vote to leave. “I would reassure those markets and investors that Britain’s economy is fundamentally strong and I would also reassure Britons living in European countries and European citizens living here, that there will be no immediate changes in your circumstances”.
She said a new referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom is “very much on the table”. The U.K. remains a member of the European Union during this period but has no voting rights.
Upon receiving the news that British voters in the “Leave” camp had obtained almost 52 percent of ballots in a referendum and therefore would pull the country out of the bloc, previously as European Economic Union, after 43 years of membership, the US president said he would talk with British Prime Minister David Cameron.
However, Prime Minister David Cameron previously said there would be no second referendum.
“London supported to “remain” while many parts of the countryside voted to ‘leave, ‘ ” said Hall. “I do not think it would be right for me to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination”, he said, choking back tears.
“It’s not an amicable divorce, but it was not exactly a tight love affair anyway”.
Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said he hoped there would be no “cat and mouse” games.
“There must be clarity”, Asselborn told reporters. As a single economic market and supranational state, the EU was responsible for legislating and implementing economic reforms that benefited the people within the union’s domain.
The UK’s European Commissioner, Lord Hill, has already resigned, confirming yesterday that he would stay on a few weeks to ensure an “orderly handover” to Latvian politician Valdis Dombrovskis, who will replace him in charge of EU financial services.
Brexit campaigners played down the financial turmoil unleashed by the result as global markets plunged and the pound fell against the dollar to levels last seen in 1985 on fears for the future of the world’s fifth-largest economy.
The vote to leave the European Union has also caused an natural disaster in British politics.
Fast-forward to January 23, 2013, and what has become known as Prime Minister David Cameron’s “Bloomberg speech”, delivered at the company’s European headquarters.
Labour legislator Frank Field said Saturday that Corbyn “clearly isn’t the right person to actually lead the party into an election because nobody thinks he will actually win”. He will, however, remain as prime minister for the next three months.
If things go disastrously and there is a radical change of mind in the public, there theoretically could be a push for a new referendum, but that is highly unlikely, Hansen says.
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Trump’s likely opponent in the presidential race, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said in a statement, “We respect the choice the people of the United Kingdom have made”.
