The foreign secretary has announced he is backing home secretary Theresa May to be the next Conservative Party leader and prime minister.
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“Breverse”, “The Leave Campaign Lied”, “Save our Future” and “Never Gonna Give EU up” were among the colourful banners on display, the latter referring to the 1980s hit by pop star Rick Astley.
More than 46.5 million people voted in the referendum on 23 June, which resulted in the United Kingdom voting by 51.9% to 49.1% to withdraw from the EU.
“Baguettes not regrets”, chanted others along the route.
Musician Bob Geldof, who led a flotilla of boats down the Thames as part of the “Remain” campaign, urged supporters to “take to the streets”.
The Labour parliamentarian says she will oppose Corbyn if he does not resign.
London voted 60 percent in favour of remaining in the European Union in last Thursday’s referendum, with younger voters widely in favour of staying in the bloc, but 52 percent of Britons overall cast ballots in favour of leaving.
Many people are calling for a second referendum, arguing that the “Leave” campaign lied to the people and made pledges and promises that were abandoned once their side won the referendum.
“I was genuinely stunned on the morning after the vote”, said one marcher, Nathaniel Samson, 25, from Hertfordshire north of London.
The race to replace him has turned into a Shakespearean-style drama that is splintering the governing Conservative Party, while the opposition Labour Party is grappling with a leadership crisis of its own – leaving the country without clear direction at a critical juncture in its history.
“The outcome of the Referendum itself is not legally binding and for the current or future Prime Minister to invoke Article 50 without the approval of Parliament is unlawful”, Kasra Nouroozi, a partner at Mishcon de Reya, said in a statement.
The UK blue-chip index closed 1.1 percent higher on Friday at 6,577.83, climbing to a 10-month high and recording its biggest weekly rise in 4-1/2 years, as hopes of fresh Bank of England stimulus lent momentum to a rebound from the slump that followed the previous week’s Brexit vote. Today many of those who spent the week sharing anti-Brexit memes online have turned up to voice their concerns in person.
It comes after Tony Blair said Britain should keep its “options open” over leaving the European Union because the “will of the people” could change.
Voters in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the capital London backed remaining, while those that chose to leave were largely from less affluent areas in England and Wales. Article 50 simply can not be invoked without a full debate and vote in Parliament.
Adam Drummond, from Opinium Research, said: “The UK is just as divided post-referendum as it was pre-referendum with voters split on what the UK’s relationship with the European Union should be after we leave and what the priority should be in the ensuing negotiations”.
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We’re getting rather used to not being able to offer you straight answers when it comes to Brexit, as our politicians continue to disagree on what it actually means. “Maybe there are things that one should consider doing now that the British aren’t going to be sitting at the table”, she said as quoted by The Financial Times. Lawmaker Gisela Stuart, who campaigned for Brexit, said that was offensive.
