EU Referendum

:00:00. > :00:14.Good evening and welcome to BBC News.

:00:15. > :00:22.A momentous day in the tissue history. -- British history.

:00:23. > :00:25.The UK has chosen to come out of the European Union,

:00:26. > :00:27.setting the country on a different path to the one it's known

:00:28. > :00:31.There have been scenes of jubilation among the Leave campaign,

:00:32. > :00:33.together with calls for calm before the complicated process begins

:00:34. > :00:38.Just hours after the result, David Cameron announced he would be

:00:39. > :00:41.stepping down and that he expected to be replaced as PM by the Autumn.

:00:42. > :00:43.There's no indication yet as to who the next inhabitant

:00:44. > :00:47.The referendum result was close but decisive.

:00:48. > :00:55.The turnout was high - just over 72%.

:00:56. > :01:00.Our first report is from our political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

:01:01. > :01:05.David Cameron, a lucky politicians, whose luck just

:01:06. > :01:15.A vote he offered on our place in the world, a vote he lost.

:01:16. > :01:17.I was absolutely clear about my belief that

:01:18. > :01:20.Britain is stronger, safer and better off inside the

:01:21. > :01:25.But the British people have made a very clear decision to take a

:01:26. > :01:28.different path, and as such, I think the country requires fresh

:01:29. > :01:33.leadership to take it in this direction.

:01:34. > :01:35.I will do everything I can as Prime Minister

:01:36. > :01:37.to steady the ship over the

:01:38. > :01:40.coming weeks and months but I do not think it

:01:41. > :01:43.would be right for me to

:01:44. > :01:45.try to be the captain that steers our country

:01:46. > :01:51.A defeat so big the consequences so complex, the Prime Minister and

:01:52. > :01:55.maybe his family too, have had enough.

:01:56. > :01:58.I've said before that Britain can survive outside the European Union

:01:59. > :02:06.Now the decision has been made to leave, we need

:02:07. > :02:16.I love this country and I feel honoured to have served it.

:02:17. > :02:19.I will do everything I can in future to

:02:20. > :02:29.But as that door close, what lies next?

:02:30. > :02:36.Boris Johnson, whose decision to push the

:02:37. > :02:40.Out campaign, gave it pulling power that might have made the difference.

:02:41. > :02:47.He walked into hostility, not a victory parade as

:02:48. > :02:52.The winning side, a campaign office, not

:02:53. > :03:04.a Whitehall address but maybe two wannabe primes.

:03:05. > :03:08.Michael Gove and Boris Johnson, eager to praise their friend and

:03:09. > :03:10.rival, David Cameron, and mark the scale

:03:11. > :03:20.To those who may be anxious, whether at home

:03:21. > :03:27.mean that the United Kingdom will be in any way less united, nor indeed

:03:28. > :03:29.does it mean that it will be any less European.

:03:30. > :03:32.And I want to speak to the millions of people, directly

:03:33. > :03:39.to the millions of people, who did not vote for this outcome,

:03:40. > :03:43.involves pulling up a draw bridge or any

:03:44. > :03:45.kind of isolationism, as I think

:03:46. > :03:53.As we move forward we should be in no

:03:54. > :03:56.doubt that Britain is embarking on a new chapter but one that is in

:03:57. > :04:00.Now, we have a new chance to extend that

:04:01. > :04:04.We can build a new, stronger and a more positive

:04:05. > :04:09.relationship with our European neighbours based on free trade and

:04:10. > :04:15.It was nearly 5am before the result was final.

:04:16. > :04:20.The British people have spoken, the answer is we are out.

:04:21. > :04:23.But an early push for out in Sunderland, had given a taste of

:04:24. > :04:32.Across the north of England in market and coastal towns votes to

:04:33. > :04:37.Wales chose out too, only sad faces for

:04:38. > :04:43.Remain-held London, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

:04:44. > :04:47.From tears to cheers they had been waiting so long

:04:48. > :04:49.to race, Nigel Farage, the first party leader

:04:50. > :04:55.It is a victory for ordinary, decent people.

:04:56. > :04:59.A victory against the big merchant banks and big businesses

:05:00. > :05:04.I'm proud of everybody that had the courage in

:05:05. > :05:08.the face of the threats, all that they were

:05:09. > :05:12.guts to stand up and do the right thing.

:05:13. > :05:15.As the Prime Minister said he was off, doubts spread

:05:16. > :05:27.Corbyn, what is your reaction to the prime minister resigning?

:05:28. > :05:29.Awkward, he now face as vote of confidence.

:05:30. > :05:31.The unions back him but

:05:32. > :05:33.many MPs believe he hung back rather than campaign hard.

:05:34. > :05:36.I campaigned the length and the breadth of the country on a party

:05:37. > :05:38.position to support remaining in Europe,

:05:39. > :05:41.recognising the deficiencies in the European Union, if tonight

:05:42. > :05:53.I made the points about jobs, environment protection.

:05:54. > :05:56.But Remain smiles in Scotland could lead to another split as they

:05:57. > :06:01.warned with England choosing out and Scotland in,

:06:02. > :06:03.the SNP is calling for another vote on Scottish independence.

:06:04. > :06:06.It is a statement of the obvious, that the option of a second

:06:07. > :06:11.referendum must be on the table and it is on the table.

:06:12. > :06:15.People are coming to Westminster to witness this day, perhaps to make

:06:16. > :06:23.In the last 24 hours we have decided to leave

:06:24. > :06:30.an institution that has been part of the fabric

:06:31. > :06:33.As a result, the Prime Minister resigned.

:06:34. > :06:35.There will be someone else in charge in Number Ten

:06:36. > :06:38.from the autumn and some of Labour's MPs are trying to force their

:06:39. > :06:40.leader, Jeremy Corbyn to walk away too.

:06:41. > :06:46.The First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, has said there must

:06:47. > :06:48.be a second referendum on the other union,

:06:49. > :06:51.the one between Scotland and the rest of the UK.

:06:52. > :06:55.It's not so much that this result has turned politics

:06:56. > :07:03.upside down but it shattered the established conventions.

:07:04. > :07:04.This flag will become a British souvenir,

:07:05. > :07:07.this one, the common standard.

:07:08. > :07:10.But our decision might trigger so much change, we may watch

:07:11. > :07:16.for years before the banner is final.

:07:17. > :07:20.The success of the Leave campaign was in part due to the strong vote

:07:21. > :07:25.They beat the Remain camp by a margin of 6%.

:07:26. > :07:28.Jon Kay travelled from Stamford in Lincolnshire to Dudley

:07:29. > :07:34.in the West Midlands and spoke to voters who mostly backed Leave.

:07:35. > :07:36.There's been a market in Stamford for hundreds of years

:07:37. > :07:43.As traders set up, the UK's place in Europe was being dismantled.

:07:44. > :07:56.We are Great Britain, that is what we do.

:07:57. > :07:59.We've been around a long time, we will sort it out,

:08:00. > :08:05.In this rural community 06% voted Leave, like Robin,

:08:06. > :08:13.he is certain he is trading with Europe and it will not change.

:08:14. > :08:17.If we are buying 20% of products they will not turn around and say

:08:18. > :08:29.But as news came in that the financial markets were tumbling,

:08:30. > :08:31.market trader Bob was getting worried.

:08:32. > :08:34.Your pension pots, investments, ISAs, that will take

:08:35. > :08:41.8.20am, the Prime Minister resigns...

:08:42. > :08:45.Tracy cannot believe what is happening.

:08:46. > :08:49.I thought he would stay and help us all to work out what we need to do

:08:50. > :08:56.From Stamford to Dudley in the West Midlands,

:08:57. > :09:00.traditionally, Labour, nearly 70% voted Leave.

:09:01. > :09:07.Look at the schools, people cannot get kids in schools

:09:08. > :09:13.Some here concerned about the focus on immigration, like Valerie.

:09:14. > :09:22.But in the Polish Delhi, Christina is not worried.

:09:23. > :09:26.She came here five years ago and works as a welder.

:09:27. > :09:29.Nobody is coming in here to tell me back to Poland.

:09:30. > :09:40.He said he feels betrayed by the older people voting to leave.

:09:41. > :09:43.I am shaking, this is the biggest change of my generation.

:09:44. > :09:46.It will impact our lives when we grow up.

:09:47. > :09:50.It will change education, everything.

:09:51. > :09:54.Normally it is difficult to get people to discuss people

:09:55. > :09:57.with regards politics on camera but today everyone was prepared

:09:58. > :10:23.Our chief correspondent is with us. Pity, a huge decision in the history

:10:24. > :10:28.of this country. A difficult one for the ruling party, bearing in mind it

:10:29. > :10:33.is so split, in order to have to do with this challenge. We are in

:10:34. > :10:37.uncharted territory, no one has done this before, no one really knows how

:10:38. > :10:42.this will pan out. There is the option of we have two scenarios

:10:43. > :10:48.painted join the campaign. One was pretty cataclysmic, about the

:10:49. > :10:54.economic repercussions what would happen to income in taxes. The other

:10:55. > :10:58.one was a positive of what life would be like outside the European

:10:59. > :11:03.Union, everything will be fine, and we don't know which of those two or

:11:04. > :11:09.something in between will happen. And it will happen in a very slow

:11:10. > :11:16.way. It could take years. Meanwhile, what happens to ordinary politics?

:11:17. > :11:19.What happens to health policy, education policy? We don't know. It

:11:20. > :11:28.is difficult to imagine that will even get an airing. Along with the

:11:29. > :11:31.leadership contest. We've got split between the Labour Party as well,

:11:32. > :11:35.the suggestion that they should be a vote of confidence in the leader. Is

:11:36. > :11:40.that going to get any kind of traction, given the support, at

:11:41. > :11:45.grassroots level, that Jeremy Corbyn has the party level. There is the

:11:46. > :11:48.possible to you the general action may be within the next year because

:11:49. > :11:52.of the Conservatives have a new leader, we are very early on in this

:11:53. > :11:57.Parliament, they may feel they have to get their own mandate to govern,

:11:58. > :12:03.when you have only been chosen by a small group of people that would be

:12:04. > :12:06.unstable. They look at what happened in the North of England and their

:12:07. > :12:10.fear is that what happened to Labour in Scotland is happening in the

:12:11. > :12:14.North of England but this time they have Ukip snapping at their heels.

:12:15. > :12:18.They are looking around. One former Shadow Cabinet member said we can

:12:19. > :12:21.either drift on into oblivion or we have to stand up and do something

:12:22. > :12:28.about it and that is what Monday will be about. There maybe this no

:12:29. > :12:31.confident notion and then you might see someone coming forward to

:12:32. > :12:35.challenge during Corbyn. The Labour Party members are the ones that have

:12:36. > :12:41.to elect the new leader and he still has incredible support. Some of them

:12:42. > :12:47.think he may think, actually, someone else can do it. That would

:12:48. > :12:51.know either, alongside the fact that the Tory party will be about to

:12:52. > :12:58.elect the new Prime Minister, to reason me, Boris Johnson? We are in

:12:59. > :13:02.a very fluid situation. We have left the EU and the Prime Minister has

:13:03. > :13:05.resigned, not one here has ever seen a day like this in British politics.

:13:06. > :13:08.Leaders across the European Union say they regret the British

:13:09. > :13:10.vote to leave, appealing for calm and stability.

:13:11. > :13:12.But what of our geographically closest ally France?

:13:13. > :13:16.With us now in Paris is Hugh Schofield.

:13:17. > :13:27.What is the reaction from the lycee Palace? Well, he is aghast, of

:13:28. > :13:31.course he is. Taken by surprise. I don't think they predicted this and

:13:32. > :13:36.when the news came in this morning, he, like the lot of other European

:13:37. > :13:41.leaders, must have felt the world was shifting on its axis. It is

:13:42. > :13:45.built worst possible news for a president who is already having a

:13:46. > :13:48.pretty appalling time of it because of various other factors. He has had

:13:49. > :13:52.twice as meetings today with a Cabinet and has come up with a

:13:53. > :13:57.statement in which he has reaffirmed what we expected him to re-firm,

:13:58. > :14:03.that he has taken stock of the British decision, he has said the

:14:04. > :14:07.two parties need to move forward quickly to disengage and so on. But

:14:08. > :14:11.he has also done what I think all European Union leaders have to do,

:14:12. > :14:15.which is to repeat and say again that they recognise there is a

:14:16. > :14:19.problem at the heart of Europe and that they see this and that they are

:14:20. > :14:22.going to do something about it. So, we can expect in the next few days

:14:23. > :14:30.and particularly at the summit next week more of this kind of language

:14:31. > :14:35.from Junker etc saying, look, we know there is a problem, it is not

:14:36. > :14:41.just them British have a problem with the tabloid press. We know

:14:42. > :14:45.there is a problem and we are going to do something about it. That is

:14:46. > :14:49.all very well, sceptics will say it is also the classic reaction which

:14:50. > :14:55.we have heard every time after every crisis, going back ten or 15 years

:14:56. > :15:01.now. Every time they talk about the new deepening or a new verve or a

:15:02. > :15:04.new initiative or a new return to values, rebuilding, it doesn't add

:15:05. > :15:10.up too much at all and the weak fear is that this is what is going to

:15:11. > :15:16.happen again and the British departure will Harold yet more and

:15:17. > :15:20.worse problems for the rest of the European Union.

:15:21. > :15:22.Today there was dismay and shock in Berlin,

:15:23. > :15:24.as the referendum result robbed Germany of its most

:15:25. > :15:32.Our correspondent Jenny Hill is in Berlin.

:15:33. > :15:38.I've spent a lot of today in the German parliament today and I have

:15:39. > :15:42.to say there is a real sense of widespread shock and disbelief. That

:15:43. > :15:46.is at the highest level. No one really expected this decision. Even

:15:47. > :15:52.Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, appeared visibly shaken

:15:53. > :15:56.when she gave a statement early on responding to the British decision

:15:57. > :16:02.to leave the EU. She expressed deep regret but at the same time she was

:16:03. > :16:06.rather defined. She said that this country's Second World War history

:16:07. > :16:10.means it has the responsible team to ensure the success of the European

:16:11. > :16:15.Union and that is why she has said she has invited the leaders of

:16:16. > :16:20.France and Italy to Berlin on Monday for further talks. We don't yet know

:16:21. > :16:24.how I hope of mud will respond to the loss of what is in effect its

:16:25. > :16:28.most significant political ally within the EU. But we are getting

:16:29. > :16:33.only dictations from a number of senior MPs that they are not going

:16:34. > :16:37.to give written an easy time as it negotiates its exit. One man said to

:16:38. > :16:41.me today it will not get special treatment and another said there

:16:42. > :16:45.will be consequences. That is because there is a real fear in

:16:46. > :16:50.Berlin that if Britain is given too many concessions as it leaves, other

:16:51. > :16:56.EU states with growing Eurosceptic populations may follow it to the

:16:57. > :16:59.exit door. Is also a difficult balance to strike because German

:17:00. > :17:04.industry is very concerned. Germany and Britain had a significant

:17:05. > :17:08.economic relationship and already today, senior economist and business

:17:09. > :17:13.leaders have come out and said there must be no barriers to future

:17:14. > :17:21.bilateral trade relationships. Very difficult times ahead. The German

:17:22. > :17:22.Foreign Minister said this is a very sad day both for Great Britain and

:17:23. > :17:25.for Europe. In the past hour, the President

:17:26. > :17:27.of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker,

:17:28. > :17:28.has called for Europeans to be reasonable when

:17:29. > :17:30.negotiating the Brexit. Let's turn to Matthew Amroliwala

:17:31. > :17:48.who's in Brussels. Shock, sorrow, anger, fear. It has

:17:49. > :17:53.been a day of extraordinary people. You are getting a flavour there from

:17:54. > :17:57.Berlin, from Paris, exacted the same here in Brussels. Let's speak to

:17:58. > :18:01.James Reynolds who is here with me. The day they never really thought

:18:02. > :18:05.they would get two. Where on earth do we go from here? They've got to

:18:06. > :18:09.look of the rules they put in place a few years ago and as you said they

:18:10. > :18:13.never thought I would have to do this. In all of the years that the

:18:14. > :18:19.European project was going, they assumed that once you join, you do

:18:20. > :18:23.not get. They are essentially looking at divorce proceedings. The

:18:24. > :18:26.problems they have is that there are no mediators. The divorcing parties

:18:27. > :18:31.have to sorted out between themselves when David Cameron comes

:18:32. > :18:35.here next week. He will be booted out the next day and the European

:18:36. > :18:43.leaders will decide how to negotiate. That will be

:18:44. > :18:49.extraordinary. You have the problem of contagion and that is the real

:18:50. > :18:53.concern. The whole thing is that Britain wasn't just the only your

:18:54. > :18:57.brisket to country. There are lots of other populations which have deep

:18:58. > :19:01.concerns about these buildings behind us, France, Austria, Italy, a

:19:02. > :19:05.lot of the Scandinavian countries as well. A lot of the European leaders

:19:06. > :19:09.are worried about negotiating with Britain and they are worried about

:19:10. > :19:14.the future of the European Union itself. And the people in these

:19:15. > :19:18.corridors, having frantic meetings today, do they have an idea about

:19:19. > :19:22.what the future relationship between Britain and the EU will look like?

:19:23. > :19:28.We don't know for sure but we have been looking at several leaks that

:19:29. > :19:32.have come out. One from Germany suggest that Germany might want an

:19:33. > :19:35.association with Britain. From Britain's point of view, that might

:19:36. > :19:40.be potentially very good but the balance the EU is tried come out is

:19:41. > :19:44.that it might want to do a good trade agreement with Britain but on

:19:45. > :19:48.the other hand, it doesn't want to encourage others to get such a good

:19:49. > :19:55.deal that they also want their exit folks. Thank you for that analysis.

:19:56. > :20:01.The 43 years, this organisation has been growing, the European project

:20:02. > :20:05.that James was talking about but in an instant, the relationship is

:20:06. > :20:06.fundamentally recast. That will dominate in the months and years

:20:07. > :20:15.ahead. Back to you. Barack Obama has said he respects

:20:16. > :20:18.the country's decision to leave. He praised David Cameron,

:20:19. > :20:20.and said the UK's special relationship with the

:20:21. > :20:29.United States would endure. A few hours ago, I spoke with Prime

:20:30. > :20:34.Minister David Cameron. David has been an outstanding friend and

:20:35. > :20:39.partner on the global stage. Based on our conversation, I am confident

:20:40. > :20:43.that the UK is committed to an orderly transition out of the EU. We

:20:44. > :20:50.agreed that our teams will remain in close contact as we stay focused on

:20:51. > :20:54.financial ability and economic growth. I spoke to Chancellor Merkel

:20:55. > :20:57.of Germany and we agreed that the European states and our European

:20:58. > :21:03.allies will work close together in the weeks and months ahead. I do

:21:04. > :21:07.think that yesterday's boat speaks to the ongoing changes and

:21:08. > :21:12.challenges raised by globalisation. But while the UK's relationship with

:21:13. > :21:15.the EU will change, one thing that will not change is the special

:21:16. > :21:21.relationship that exists between our two nations. That will endure. The

:21:22. > :21:26.EU will remain one of our indispensable partners, our native

:21:27. > :21:29.alliance will remain focused on global security and in a few weeks,

:21:30. > :21:36.we will bully meeting for the Nato summit. Our shared values, including

:21:37. > :21:39.our commitment to democracy and opportunities for all people in a

:21:40. > :21:42.globalised world, that will continue to unite all of us.

:21:43. > :21:47.Let's get reaction from Laura Bicker in Washington.

:21:48. > :21:55.The president there trying to sort of make it clear that the special

:21:56. > :21:58.relationship will endure and that on a number of levels, things aren't

:21:59. > :22:01.really going to change but he did make the point when he was over here

:22:02. > :22:06.a few weeks ago that when it comes to cutting a trade deal with the US,

:22:07. > :22:11.this country, the UK, it will be at the back of the queue. That is

:22:12. > :22:16.right. This is not the result that the Obama Administration had hoped

:22:17. > :22:21.for. It is certainly not the result that he had helped campaign for in

:22:22. > :22:25.that extraordinary foray into British politics just a few weeks

:22:26. > :22:28.ago where that speech, alongside David Cameron, he told Britain that

:22:29. > :22:36.they may be at the back of the queue when it came to trade deals and that

:22:37. > :22:41.he was worried about security. Today, he has softened his language

:22:42. > :22:45.and has tried to calm but Waters and has talked about continuity.

:22:46. > :22:50.Obviously, the markets are jittery, to say the least, that -- there have

:22:51. > :22:54.been messages from the US Treasury saying they have prepared for this

:22:55. > :22:59.and they have been in talks for weeks in case of Brexit. He is

:23:00. > :23:04.trying to calm the waters in terms of security as well. They say there

:23:05. > :23:12.will still be sharing of information between the EU, UK and the US, when

:23:13. > :23:16.it comes security. It is clear in the statement this morning and in

:23:17. > :23:21.the one this afternoon that he is praising the UK's Rolin Nato, he

:23:22. > :23:25.says we will work together to try to continue to battle the so-called

:23:26. > :23:29.Islamic State grip. But when it comes to continuity, he is tried to

:23:30. > :23:34.make it clear that they'll will still be a relationship with the UK.

:23:35. > :23:41.How that will play at will be interesting but he is also reaching

:23:42. > :23:44.out to the EU as well. Both his calls went David Cameron and two

:23:45. > :23:49.Angela Merkel, he is making sure that he says here in the we are

:23:50. > :23:55.tried to keep calm, we will see what the fallout is and we will see what

:23:56. > :24:04.part we can play in it but while you sort this out, do it in the easiest

:24:05. > :24:09.way possible. We are going to cross to Northern Ireland now. We heard

:24:10. > :24:13.the Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness called for a referendum

:24:14. > :24:19.vote on a united Ireland. That is not going to happen, is it? The

:24:20. > :24:25.Secretary of State, Theresa Villiers, has ruled that out. In

:24:26. > :24:31.order to call that referendum you do need be in a position where you

:24:32. > :24:35.actually have some evidence that it would be likely to get carried and

:24:36. > :24:40.the reality is that isn't the case at the moment. However, it does show

:24:41. > :24:44.that there are strong feelings about this and certainly Irish republicans

:24:45. > :24:47.are looking across the water at Scotland and perhaps seeing an

:24:48. > :24:53.opportunity in this. Other people save the opportunity is a result of

:24:54. > :24:56.what's happened today, the First Minister of Northern Ireland has

:24:57. > :25:00.been talking about business here and saying that she accepts there will

:25:01. > :25:04.be challenges ahead but they could also be opportunities. But when you

:25:05. > :25:08.talk to people in business in places like this, this is Newry, this is a

:25:09. > :25:14.border town, and these busy roads you see going through, a lot of them

:25:15. > :25:17.carried cross-border traffic, Newry is sitting between Belfast and

:25:18. > :25:22.Dublin and that has been in the past in a very good position to try and

:25:23. > :25:25.get business. The brevity is it doesn't know what is going to happen

:25:26. > :25:29.to that border and that is the concern for lots of people here

:25:30. > :25:34.because the idea that you could have customs checkpoint back on the

:25:35. > :25:37.border or extra security, as was suggested by some in this Reverend

:25:38. > :25:42.campaign, they really don't know what that will mean. You do have

:25:43. > :25:45.people starting to weigh up the consequences of the referendum.

:25:46. > :25:49.There is one thing that is already starting to happen and it is quite

:25:50. > :25:54.interesting, people in Northern Ireland currently have the right to

:25:55. > :25:58.hold two passports, they can have an Irish passport and a British

:25:59. > :26:04.passport. Today, there has been a run of applications for Irish

:26:05. > :26:08.passports, they will remain EU passports. That has happened in

:26:09. > :26:13.nationalist and in unionist areas. People are starting to big about

:26:14. > :26:19.what this reverend might mean and in this part of the UK, it really is

:26:20. > :26:26.going to have some sort of impact. You can say that again. Thank you.

:26:27. > :26:30.We will have much more on this momentous day. Stay with us. But

:26:31. > :26:38.now, time for a look at the weather. And up and down weekend to come.

:26:39. > :26:46.Funny for some, wet for others. Most of us good spells of sunshine and

:26:47. > :26:50.heavy downpours. Notably heavy downpours across the North. Scotland

:26:51. > :26:55.with torrential showers. Elsewhere, the showers fading away. Some will

:26:56. > :27:04.keep you going, particularly those in the North West and Wales. Fresher

:27:05. > :27:14.tonight. The crew launch but some sunshine to be had first thing in

:27:15. > :27:18.the morning. -- a cool dawn. Heavy, slow moving downpours again. If you

:27:19. > :27:27.stay dry on Friday, you might see a downpour on Saturday and vice versa.

:27:28. > :27:29.The unsettled scene continues into the early part of next week where we

:27:30. > :28:27.will see some rain at times. This is BBC News.

:28:28. > :28:35.The headlines at 8.30pm: -- you are watching a special BBC

:28:36. > :28:43.news programme with me, Clive Majri. -- you are watching a special BBC

:28:44. > :28:46.news programme with me, Clive Myrie. A moment of history as the UK votes

:28:47. > :28:50.to leave the European Union. There was jubilation among

:28:51. > :28:52.the millions who voted to come out of the EU

:28:53. > :28:54.after more than four decades. David Cameron, who campaigned hard

:28:55. > :28:57.to remain in the EU, has announced he is stepping down

:28:58. > :29:04.as Prime Minister. He says fresh leadership is needed

:29:05. > :29:07.to negotiate the UK's exit. A leading figure in the Exit

:29:08. > :29:09.campaign, Boris Johnson, paid tribute to the outgoing

:29:10. > :29:11.Prime Minister but hailed the Leave victory as providing a "glorious

:29:12. > :29:13.opportunity" for Britain. On the markets, British bank shares

:29:14. > :29:16.lost nearly a third of their value There have been warnings that petrol

:29:17. > :29:20.prices are likely to rise because of the pound's fall

:29:21. > :29:22.against the dollar. And there are questions

:29:23. > :29:25.for the future of the UK too, as Nicola Sturgeon used Scotland's

:29:26. > :29:27.overwhelming vote to remain to raise the possibility of another

:29:28. > :29:32.referendum on Scottish independence. So the result was relatively close,

:29:33. > :29:35.the turnout high, and the regional Our correspondent Christian Fraser

:29:36. > :29:38.has been taking a closer look Let's take an in-depth look at those

:29:39. > :29:53.numbers in greater detail. Over 28 million votes cast

:29:54. > :29:57.on Thursday, turnout 73%. They did think a high turnout

:29:58. > :30:05.would be good for Remain. The total number of eligible voters

:30:06. > :30:11.was 46.5 million, the turnout was 72.2%, the biggest turnout in a

:30:12. > :30:16.national vote since 1992. They thought a bigger turnout in the

:30:17. > :30:25.election would be good news for Remain, but not in England. 53.4%

:30:26. > :30:28.for Remain. Different in Scotland, of course. No question over the

:30:29. > :30:35.result, lower turnout but overwhelmingly remain. In Edinburgh

:30:36. > :30:40.it was 74% in favour. A different story in Wales. A big turnout but

:30:41. > :30:47.only five of the 22 voting areas going for Remain. Rounded up it was

:30:48. > :30:53.the same result as England, Cardiff was Remain but Swansea was a

:30:54. > :30:57.Mannheim. And a sizeable and vote for Remain especially in the areas

:30:58. > :31:04.along the border in Northern Ireland -- Swansea was Remain. The bookies

:31:05. > :31:17.got it wrong because they did not understand what was going of London.

:31:18. > :31:19.Look at this area, all blue in traditional Labour supporting areas.

:31:20. > :31:25.Boston in Lincolnshire, the highest vote for Leave in the country, not

:31:26. > :31:30.at Labour seat, but a Tory one this time, and according to the 2011

:31:31. > :31:32.census, home to the highest population of Eastern European

:31:33. > :31:39.migrants anywhere in England and Wales. Down here, Great Yarmouth, a

:31:40. > :31:44.Ukip mayor, again one of the top five Remain votes in the country,

:31:45. > :31:49.over 70% wanting out. We have there showed you the nationwide split

:31:50. > :31:54.between England and Scotland. What about the generational beside? Far

:31:55. > :31:58.to early to give a definitive analysis but this poll yesterday

:31:59. > :32:06.conducted suggested 27% of 18 to 25 your olds wanted to leave compared

:32:07. > :32:10.to 33% -- 73% wanting to stay in Europe. As people get older it

:32:11. > :32:17.starts to swing the other way. For those over 65 it suggests 60% wanted

:32:18. > :32:27.to leave EU. The outcome of the EU Referendum

:32:28. > :32:34.shocked financial markets. As counting took place overnight,

:32:35. > :32:36.and the Leave vote started to emerge as victorious,

:32:37. > :32:38.the pound fell to levels At one stage, it fell

:32:39. > :32:41.by more than 10%. By early afternoon, it had

:32:42. > :32:43.partially recovered, but was still nearly 8% down

:32:44. > :32:45.on the day. So let's get an insight

:32:46. > :32:47.into the bigger picture of how leaving the EU

:32:48. > :32:50.will affect our economy. Charles Read is an economic

:32:51. > :32:56.commentator for The Economist. It is good to see you. Thank you for

:32:57. > :32:58.being with us. Firstly, you are an expert on these matters, but the

:32:59. > :33:01.public did not care about the voice of experts, did it? Why do you think

:33:02. > :33:04.that was? That is a very good question and that is a question many

:33:05. > :33:06.economistss and many people around the world are asking themselves

:33:07. > :33:13.today. Everyone from Barack Obama to the IMF to many academics in this

:33:14. > :33:19.country and abroad warned a Leave vote would be bad for the economy

:33:20. > :33:22.and they were ignored. Why did they ignore the economic establishment?

:33:23. > :33:25.Partly this vote is a rebellion against the establishment and you

:33:26. > :33:30.are seeing this across the whole world. You are seeing this in the

:33:31. > :33:34.popularity of Donald Trump in America, in the rise of populist

:33:35. > :33:38.movements around the European continent, and you are seeing it in

:33:39. > :33:42.the rise of Ukip are the last General Election, so this is even

:33:43. > :33:52.trend which appears to be here to stay for us. Why did they ignore

:33:53. > :33:55.economic commentators? Well, there are possibly many reasons why they

:33:56. > :34:01.have possibly because they thought economic, did as did not understand

:34:02. > :34:05.the issues which mattered to them. OK, and perhaps they also thought

:34:06. > :34:10.people like you might get it wrong, but we have seen the pound crashed

:34:11. > :34:14.today, we have seen stocks wiped off the FTSE 100, particularly banking

:34:15. > :34:18.shares and their construction and housing. None of that is a surprise

:34:19. > :34:24.to you? None of it is a surprise and it is going to get worse. The pound

:34:25. > :34:27.will fall further and as uncertainty over the next Prime Minister will

:34:28. > :34:34.last for a few months, and the deal about leaving the EU will be

:34:35. > :34:39.unsettled for the next two or three years, perhaps, the pound will fall

:34:40. > :34:44.further, and a lot of damage due to the uncertainty about investing in

:34:45. > :34:49.Britain, the uncertainty in financial markets, it will damage

:34:50. > :34:53.the UK economy. Most commentators are cutting their GDP forecasts to

:34:54. > :34:59.about zero for next year and there is a real risk of recession for the

:35:00. > :35:03.next year or two. All right, but what those who voted Leave would say

:35:04. > :35:08.is that, yes, there would be a short-term shock, but that will be

:35:09. > :35:11.short-term, we all understood that. The pound will find its level, find

:35:12. > :35:16.the floor, then everything will be OK. Is that if fair assumption to

:35:17. > :35:21.make? It cheaper pound will help some exporters, but far more people

:35:22. > :35:26.in Britain are consumers rather than producers, and is cheaper pound will

:35:27. > :35:30.mean that imports get more expensive, going on foreign holidays

:35:31. > :35:33.will be more expensive, and more people will lose from having a very

:35:34. > :35:38.cheap pounds and will gain from having a cheap pound, and therefore

:35:39. > :35:42.that is one of the reasons why leaving the EU will do so much

:35:43. > :35:46.damage to the economy and the following out-mac will do so much

:35:47. > :35:47.damage to the economy. Thank you. Charles, thank you so much for

:35:48. > :35:50.coming in. Now that the vote has happened

:35:51. > :35:53.and Britian will leave the EU, Our legal affairs correspondent

:35:54. > :35:56.Clive Coleman explains the process. Well, of course everyone wants

:35:57. > :35:58.to know what will happen - what's the process,

:35:59. > :36:00.what's the timescale? Now this is unchartered territory

:36:01. > :36:03.both for the EU and for the UK. It is all contained within Article

:36:04. > :36:06.50 of the Treaty on European Union, and it's only been around since 2009

:36:07. > :36:09.- it has never been tested. But what it says is essentially this

:36:10. > :36:12.- that once the UK Prime Minister has informed the President

:36:13. > :36:14.of the European Council of the intention of the UK to leave,

:36:15. > :36:17.a clock starts ticking, Within that two years,

:36:18. > :36:27.there is the opportunity to negotiate what is essentially

:36:28. > :36:29.a basic divorce settlement. That will take on board things

:36:30. > :36:32.like a precise time the UK leaves, what happens for instance to UK MPs

:36:33. > :36:35.who are at the European Parliament, what happens to UK civil servants

:36:36. > :36:38.working for EU institutions, I think where people are perhaps

:36:39. > :36:48.misguided or misinformed is that somehow within that two-year period,

:36:49. > :36:51.everything is going to be sorted out, including a trade deal,

:36:52. > :37:05.a deal on the movement of people. What we know, and it certainly

:37:06. > :37:08.would be great if that was sorted out within that period,

:37:09. > :37:10.but trade deals can take decades, and so there is absolutely no

:37:11. > :37:13.guarantee that at the end of that two-year period we will have more

:37:14. > :37:16.than the basic divorce document, if you like, and then we will have

:37:17. > :37:19.to continue negotiating for a trade deal, a deal

:37:20. > :37:25.on the movement of goods. Of course, if there is no

:37:26. > :37:27.agreement after two years, the two years can be extended,

:37:28. > :37:30.but only if all 27 member states So it could perhaps be extended even

:37:31. > :37:51.for another year, but certainly as the Article 50 stands,

:37:52. > :37:54.once the two years has run and it has ended, if there is no agreement,

:37:55. > :37:57.then the UK simply ceases to become a member of the EU,

:37:58. > :38:00.and would have to negotiate with the EU, like any other

:38:01. > :38:03.third-party country who would be negotiating under the World Trade

:38:04. > :38:11.Organisation terms and conditions. So that is the process,

:38:12. > :38:12.that the timeline, but it is shrouded in a lot

:38:13. > :38:28.of uncertainty because it is untried That was Clive Coleman on that

:38:29. > :38:38.process on leaving the European Union. How did the vote she popped

:38:39. > :38:39.across the English regions? -- shape up across.

:38:40. > :38:42.It's clear that the Midlands was something of a Brexit

:38:43. > :38:45.stronghold, with 29 out of 30 areas voting in favour of leaving.

:38:46. > :38:47.Our reporter Ben Godfrey has been speaking to people

:38:48. > :38:49.in the Black Country, where two out of three

:38:50. > :38:53.I'm happy - it's been the best day of my life today.

:38:54. > :38:57.Kay Crampton says she has no job and no council house,

:38:58. > :38:59.and blames immigration, so - no doubts - she voted

:39:00. > :39:02.These people are coming here to work.

:39:03. > :39:05.These immigrants have their own families in Tipton and Princes End.

:39:06. > :39:19.Well, if you watch the documentaries, they use our money

:39:20. > :39:22.to take back to their own country so they can have better lives...

:39:23. > :39:26.This is Union Street in Princes End, where it is a struggle to find

:39:27. > :39:28.those who believe in a political union with Europe.

:39:29. > :39:30.I voted out because, basically, it's an immigration thing really.

:39:31. > :39:33.You know, all these immigrants and them, taking our stuff.

:39:34. > :39:35.I don't believe in what the Government is doing -

:39:36. > :39:39.A decade ago this area saw the rise of the BNP.

:39:40. > :39:41.It was divisive, but they found support from the largely

:39:42. > :39:45.The EU referendum came along with another voice on immigration.

:39:46. > :39:47.Ukip's Nigel Farage brought his battle bus

:39:48. > :39:49.to the Black Country on the campaign trail.

:39:50. > :39:52.That should be a British passport, but the first two words

:39:53. > :40:03.Actually according to the 2011 census, around one in 20 people

:40:04. > :40:05.in Sandwell were from other EU countries.

:40:06. > :40:08.Christophe from Poland told me he had been working for six

:40:09. > :40:15.He believes immigrants help fill the skills gap.

:40:16. > :40:20.I have seen many English people will come to work, come in for two,

:40:21. > :40:22.come in for two, three hours, then back home,

:40:23. > :40:25.because the money is no good, the job is too hard,

:40:26. > :40:28.The Polish shop nearby does a brisk trade.

:40:29. > :40:33.Monica told me she is fully contributing to society.

:40:34. > :40:36.I have worked here 11 years and paid the tax and everything,

:40:37. > :40:40.and I have the kids as well, and the last one, he was born

:40:41. > :40:45.Princes End may be small, but these estates are now shaping

:40:46. > :40:50.In stark contrast with much of the rest of England,

:40:51. > :40:53.London voted overwhelmingly in favour of remaining in the UK.

:40:54. > :40:55.In Lambeth, 79% of voters rejected a Brexit -

:40:56. > :40:57.the strongest Remain vote in the mainland United Kingdom.

:40:58. > :40:59.Our reporter Alice Bhandhukravi has been talking to them,

:41:00. > :41:18.some of whom say today's result feels like a slap in the face.

:41:19. > :41:20.Materials from Spain, from Italy, from Greece,

:41:21. > :41:29.A man of stone, manufacturing granite and marble worktops,

:41:30. > :41:32.but today he is definitely feeling the burden of Brexit.

:41:33. > :41:36.They welcome me just kind of like, yes, you were my neighbour,

:41:37. > :41:39.yes, I love you, and so on, and then, you know.

:41:40. > :41:41.You feel empty, you feel like the spirit is not

:41:42. > :41:44.In the Brazilian restaurant across the road, Maria,

:41:45. > :41:46.who is about to become a British citizen, says London

:41:47. > :41:50.It is kind of a slap in the face because London

:41:51. > :41:54.For example, people that are English and they don't want to do such a job

:41:55. > :42:06.as cleaning or manual labour, they are done by the immigrants.

:42:07. > :42:08.NIGEL FARAGE: Let June the 23rd go down in our history

:42:09. > :42:27.All eyes were on the Portuguese coverage of Brexit at the Estrella

:42:28. > :42:32.cafe where the resounding feeling was one of uncertainty.

:42:33. > :42:34.Most of us have family here, we are very established,

:42:35. > :42:36.we don't know if it will affect us or not,

:42:37. > :42:42.I have my residency so I am not worried about that.

:42:43. > :42:46.I am worried about the country, I am worried that the country

:42:47. > :42:49.I am worried about the country, I am worried about if the country

:42:50. > :42:53.will be stronger or less strong after that.

:42:54. > :42:56.But they are sure business is likely to be less strong

:42:57. > :42:58.at Luso Wines next door, where everything

:42:59. > :43:07.It will be bad for the business people. You are worried about the

:43:08. > :43:15.currency issue when you import your wine from Portugal? Yes, the

:43:16. > :43:19.currency. It will definitely be an anxious few months ahead as we all

:43:20. > :43:20.get our heads around what Brexit means for us.

:43:21. > :43:23.The pattern of voting varied widely across the different nations

:43:24. > :43:31.Scotland - which voted overwhelmingly to stay

:43:32. > :43:34.in the European Union - is now highly likely to face

:43:35. > :43:39.Joining me now is or Scottish political editor Nick Eardley.

:43:40. > :43:43.The First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, she said it is back

:43:44. > :43:47.on the table. That is not the same as saying there is going to be

:43:48. > :43:51.another referendum, though, is it? Absolutely. I think what she wanted

:43:52. > :43:55.to do today was the exactly that. It is back on the table, it is

:43:56. > :43:59.something we will consider, but that does not make it inevitable. In some

:44:00. > :44:07.senses, what she said today will seem inevitable to some Scots,

:44:08. > :44:11.because in the run-up to the election she said that if there was

:44:12. > :44:16.some change in material circumstances, something that

:44:17. > :44:18.changes the political situation in Scotland, she wanted the right to

:44:19. > :44:25.call another referendum, but the keywords there are "The right to".

:44:26. > :44:28.The SNP do not want to hold another referendum until they are absolutely

:44:29. > :44:31.sure they will win it and in the run-up to that May election, senior

:44:32. > :44:36.sources in the party said to me, they wanted to be 60% for six months

:44:37. > :44:40.before they are sure they can call another vote that they will win. I

:44:41. > :44:43.think in these unchartered political and economic waters we are entering

:44:44. > :44:47.at the moment, it is hard to see exactly what is going to happen.

:44:48. > :44:52.There are people in Scotland I have spoken to today who are angry, who

:44:53. > :44:56.feel let down by the system, in Glasgow and Edinburgh today there

:44:57. > :44:59.have been people out protesting, saying we support the EU, we support

:45:00. > :45:04.positive immigration into the country, but we can't really tell

:45:05. > :45:13.what will happen, can we? We do not know there will be economic shocks,

:45:14. > :45:15.political changes. That might make people more or less likely to

:45:16. > :45:19.support Scottish independence so, yes, I think it is firmly back on

:45:20. > :45:24.the agenda, but whether that makes another referendum inevitable? Not

:45:25. > :45:28.yet. One senses there has been a sense of betrayal, perhaps, for that

:45:29. > :45:32.62% in Scotland who voted for Leave. They were told during the Scottish

:45:33. > :45:36.referendum, if you want to stay in the European Union, vote to keep the

:45:37. > :45:39.union with the United Kingdom. They perhaps feel they have been sold

:45:40. > :45:44.down the river? Yellow I guess, and Nicola Sturgeon brought that up

:45:45. > :45:51.today. That key argument of the Better Together campaign in 2014,

:45:52. > :45:55.you can only secure your case in the EU -- place in the EU if you stay in

:45:56. > :45:58.the United Kingdom. Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Conservative leader,

:45:59. > :46:03.someone people will be far more familiar with after that debate on

:46:04. > :46:07.Tuesday, she said that 62% vote for the EU, however, does not

:46:08. > :46:09.necessarily equate to the support for independence, and I think you

:46:10. > :46:14.will see debate over this in the next few months in Scotland, and,

:46:15. > :46:17.you know, recent polls suggest Scotland is still a polarised

:46:18. > :46:22.country when it comes to the question of independence. And there

:46:23. > :46:25.is no guarantee, like I just said, in terms of economics and politics

:46:26. > :46:34.of the future, that that will change. OK, Nick, thank you. The

:46:35. > :46:39.different nations contained in the United Kingdom voted in different

:46:40. > :46:42.ways. Whilst Scotland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the

:46:43. > :46:47.European Union, Wales ordered to leave. Our Welsh editor has the

:46:48. > :46:51.story. Remember this day. This day is British Independence Day! They do

:46:52. > :46:56.not look like much out in the rain on the streets of Newport, but more

:46:57. > :47:02.than 850,000 people across Wales back the cause promoted by these

:47:03. > :47:06.Vote Leave containers. Even for some die-hards it came as a surprise --

:47:07. > :47:11.campaigners. But for many here it was the result of years of work.

:47:12. > :47:15.Last night Wales voted for us to leave the EU, that is just a

:47:16. > :47:19.fantastic result. It was not England pulling the rest of Britain out of

:47:20. > :47:23.Europe, out of the EU, it was England and Wales. As we have seen

:47:24. > :47:30.throughout the campaign, their message touched a nerve. You disgust

:47:31. > :47:35.me... There was always a sense of the band of brothers taking on the

:47:36. > :47:38.establishment with the Vote Leave campaign, and it generated

:47:39. > :47:43.excitement and enthusiasm that, frankly, the other side failed to

:47:44. > :47:46.match. They just could not make their greater size count and when

:47:47. > :47:51.they did start campaigning, they were too late to the party. The most

:47:52. > :47:55.prominent Vote Leave campaign and Wales was the leader of the Welsh

:47:56. > :48:00.Conservatives, Andrew RT Davies. He says he was proud to play his part.

:48:01. > :48:04.The beliefs and aspirations of what we were seeking to achieve were

:48:05. > :48:08.magnified last night by the vote and the substantial vote to recast our

:48:09. > :48:12.relationship with Europe, and I believe my team stuck to their

:48:13. > :48:17.convictions, stuck loyally to me, and we have succeeded with a family

:48:18. > :48:20.of activists that were in the Leave campaign. Their jubilation was in

:48:21. > :48:25.stark contrast to downbeat news conference in Cardiff in which cad

:48:26. > :48:30.Wyn Jones warned of job losses. He also refused to take responsible

:48:31. > :48:33.before the result in Wales saying he did not choose the timing of the

:48:34. > :48:39.referendum. But he admitted there was a disconnect between Labour

:48:40. > :48:42.leaders and their heartland areas. Too many people in these communities

:48:43. > :48:48.feel that politics and our economy has left them behind, and we have a

:48:49. > :48:52.real task ahead to undo that sense of alienation. There was also a call

:48:53. > :48:57.for stability from the leader of Plaid Cymru, Leanne Wood. In the

:48:58. > :49:03.next phase now the chances are it could be even more difficult, unless

:49:04. > :49:06.we are prepared to come together as politicians and as civic society in

:49:07. > :49:13.Wales to make sure that our needs are fully understood by Westminster

:49:14. > :49:18.and here. The result in Wales mirror that in England. Cardiff chose to

:49:19. > :49:21.remain with the biggest majority, together with affluent areas like

:49:22. > :49:27.the Vale of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. And the Welsh

:49:28. > :49:31.speaking areas like Gwyneth. The vote was split 48-52 here. Plaid

:49:32. > :49:41.Cymru is strong here and from urged its supporters will ignite

:49:42. > :49:46.supporters to vote Remain. Bangor 's population is diverse, with its

:49:47. > :49:51.university. The director here says the future is uncertain. It would be

:49:52. > :49:54.a great shame obviously is these opportunities are not available to

:49:55. > :49:58.these kinds of areas in the future so again I hope that in whatever new

:49:59. > :50:01.settlement comes, there will be the opportunities to obtain that kind of

:50:02. > :50:07.funding for economically disadvantaged areas. But it was a

:50:08. > :50:14.very different story in Blaenau Gwent, the most used get the area,

:50:15. > :50:17.voting by 62-38 to leave. It was one of many former industrial

:50:18. > :50:21.communities in the Labour heartland in the South Wales valleys to reject

:50:22. > :50:26.Remain, despite receiving millions in EU funding. I think people are

:50:27. > :50:31.trying to take control back from the Government, really. I think

:50:32. > :50:36.basically, to get our country back, owned by ourselves and governed by

:50:37. > :50:39.ourselves. I think there are too many immigrants coming into our

:50:40. > :50:43.country and taking our jobs, you know. For many years Wales was

:50:44. > :50:54.considered one of the most pro-EU places in the UK. Not any more.

:50:55. > :51:02.Well it was the former Tory Justice Secretary who said a Leave would

:51:03. > :51:05.leave David Cameron as toast. He called the referendum, he didn't

:51:06. > :51:07.have to do it, it was at the time of his choosing, and failure means he

:51:08. > :51:10.should step down. Shortly after 8 o'clock this morning

:51:11. > :51:13.David Cameron walked out of the door of Number Ten to announce

:51:14. > :51:15.he was stepping down It was an emotional speech -

:51:16. > :51:19.he said while he will stay to 'steady the ship' over

:51:20. > :51:21.the coming weeks and months, fresh leadership is needed

:51:22. > :51:23.to negotiate the UK's An exit, of course, the Prime

:51:24. > :51:27.minister did not want. Our deputy political editor

:51:28. > :51:30.Jon Pienaar looks at David Cameron's time as Prime Minister

:51:31. > :51:45.and who may now replace him. What is happening in Downing Street?

:51:46. > :51:51.David Cameron has just resigned. And emotional moment? The Leave crowd

:51:52. > :51:55.outside bid not mind a bit. They should get all this cleared away so

:51:56. > :52:00.they can get straight in, big man in, little man out. For the

:52:01. > :52:05.Camerons, it ended in tears, premierships often do. No comfort

:52:06. > :52:07.possible tonight except from a respected predecessor who thought

:52:08. > :52:14.David Cameron was made of the Right stuff. He was a one nation

:52:15. > :52:16.Conservative. He looks for a tolerant, undivided, inclusive

:52:17. > :52:22.nation. I do not think the fault is at his door, that our nation at this

:52:23. > :52:26.moment, on this issue, is more fractured than we have seen it for a

:52:27. > :52:36.very long time. David Cameron did not have the hardest upbringing. He

:52:37. > :52:39.mixed with fellow Etonians in the famous Billington club. He promised

:52:40. > :52:45.something fresh as the new Tory leader. He did make the Tory brand

:52:46. > :52:48.greener, driven by compassion, and in the Arctic by Huskies. In office

:52:49. > :52:52.along with the Liberal Democrats he led the first coalition since the

:52:53. > :52:56.war. The won referendum in Scotland, and with the promise of a new deal

:52:57. > :53:01.in Europe, took one risk too far. We will give the British people

:53:02. > :53:05.referendum, with a very simple in or out choice. David Cameron is no

:53:06. > :53:09.thrill-seeker. He took a gamble after gamble because he felt he had

:53:10. > :53:13.to, to hold power under enormous pressure, from Scotland, from his

:53:14. > :53:16.own side, over Europe. In the end he lost everything and Scottish

:53:17. > :53:20.independence is up for grabs again. His dream of leading a socially

:53:21. > :53:25.liberal one nation Tory party has died. His place in history is

:53:26. > :53:29.spoiled, his crown passed on prematurely. But to go? Boris

:53:30. > :53:35.Johnson is the early favourite. Popular, but not now with everyone.

:53:36. > :53:40.-- to whom? Theresa May, and Michael Gove denies any ambition. I hope we

:53:41. > :53:44.do have a woman in the final two. I think that is important in

:53:45. > :53:47.21st-century Britain. Whether it is me all one of my brilliant female

:53:48. > :53:51.colleagues is for the party to decide. I will not make any decision

:53:52. > :53:54.about that until we have had a bit of a rest over the weekend, a chance

:53:55. > :53:59.to speak to our colleagues, and obviously I would not rule anything

:54:00. > :54:02.out. Off to the Palace today. They miss it when they leave. Although

:54:03. > :54:05.David Cameron always said he could see a life after the premiership, he

:54:06. > :54:14.has lost something he loved, and it hurt was plain to see. Much more

:54:15. > :54:15.coming up. Stay with us. I was actually in Essex for the Basildon

:54:16. > :54:21.coat over night at the referendum and the

:54:22. > :54:22.weather was absolutely awful. It has been much better

:54:23. > :54:34.It certainly has, at times and in places. This lovely shot was taken

:54:35. > :54:39.in Derbyshire from one of our weather watchers. The clouds then

:54:40. > :54:44.grew darker and darker with some of those ominous looking thunder clouds

:54:45. > :54:48.here, in Tyne Wear. Storms through the course of the day. Thunder and

:54:49. > :54:51.lightening but some good opportunities for some of our

:54:52. > :54:55.weather watchers as well. There are still some torrential downpours just

:54:56. > :54:57.at the moment in parts of north-east England, large hail storms

:54:58. > :55:01.developing on the ground here, I have noticed. These will tend to

:55:02. > :55:04.fade away. The showers continue across the heart of Scotland and

:55:05. > :55:09.other Western parts will hang on to showers. For most of us, becoming

:55:10. > :55:13.dry, and temperatures will get lower, particularly in rural areas.

:55:14. > :55:15.A fresh start to Saturday morning where you are, and across central

:55:16. > :55:19.and eastern areas probably a bright start but that will not last

:55:20. > :55:25.forever. She out West will develop and spread eastwards and some of

:55:26. > :55:31.those could again mean business and torrential downpours -- showers West

:55:32. > :55:35.will develop. Glastonbury, after one or two back showers itchy dry up

:55:36. > :55:38.through the day. A whole lot of showers through the spine of

:55:39. > :55:44.northern England towards Scotland -- it should dry up. Disappointingly

:55:45. > :55:47.grey and misty still across the far north-east. The far north-east of

:55:48. > :55:51.Scotland, that is, keeping it cool here. He changed to the weather on

:55:52. > :55:54.Sunday, we think, after a chilly dawn we will see a weather system

:55:55. > :55:58.pushing in from the Atlantic which means rain, firstly for Northern

:55:59. > :56:02.Ireland, then spreading into western parts of the mainland gradually

:56:03. > :56:06.through the day. That means for central and eastern areas, here

:56:07. > :56:11.after eight showery Saturday, probably a better day on Sunday --

:56:12. > :56:17.showery Saturday. It could feel quite pleasant, I think, on Sunday.

:56:18. > :56:19.On Monday the system edges towards the south-east, perhaps some showery

:56:20. > :56:24.rain across the London area, then it brightens up in the breezy Monday

:56:25. > :56:28.and bright for most of us. That will not last. Another sister is coming

:56:29. > :56:33.and off the Atlantic and choose the. -- another weather system. That is

:56:34. > :56:40.moving west to east across the country. So, yes, some brightness at

:56:41. > :56:42.times over the opening few days of Wimbledon, but also some rain. Not a

:56:43. > :56:47.complete wash-out but I think that Ruth might well come in handy from

:56:48. > :56:52.time to time. All the latest information can be found on the BBC

:56:53. > :56:54.weather website -- that roof might come in handy. And I will be back in

:56:55. > :57:58.half an hour. I'm Clive Myrie, live

:57:59. > :58:08.from Westminster on an historic day. After more than four decades, the UK

:58:09. > :58:11.will leave the European Union. As the results came in,

:58:12. > :58:18.there was jubilation among the millions who voted to come out

:58:19. > :58:21.of the EU. We did it!

:58:22. > :58:37.We have changed the face of Europe! Dared to dream that the dawn is

:58:38. > :58:41.breaking on an independent united kingdom.

:58:42. > :58:44.I believe we have a glorious opportunity to pass our own laws

:58:45. > :58:48.We can control our own borders in a way

:58:49. > :59:00.Among the sizeable minority who wanted to remain in the EU,

:59:01. > :59:10.Within hours, and emotional David Cameron said that UK needed fresh

:59:11. > :59:15.leadership. I will do everything I can

:59:16. > :59:18.as Prime Minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months,

:59:19. > :59:22.but I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain

:59:23. > :59:24.that steers our country Sterling plunged after

:59:25. > :59:28.the result was announced. Some companies saw their shares fall

:59:29. > :59:31.by nearly a third. President Obama says despite a vote

:59:32. > :59:35.to leave the EU, the US-UK alliance But while the UK's relationship

:59:36. > :59:44.with the EU will change, one thing that will not change

:59:45. > :59:47.is the special relationship that The UK has chosen to come out

:59:48. > :00:06.of the European Union, setting the country on a different

:00:07. > :00:09.path to the one it's known There have been scenes of jubilation

:00:10. > :00:15.among the Leave campaign, together with calls for calm before

:00:16. > :00:18.the complicated process begins Just hours after the result,

:00:19. > :00:24.David Cameron announced he would be stepping down and that he expected

:00:25. > :00:28.to be replaced as PM by the Autumn. There's no indication yet

:00:29. > :00:31.as to who the next inhabitant The referendum result

:00:32. > :00:37.was close but decisive. Our first report is from our

:00:38. > :00:48.political editor Laura Kuenssberg. David Cameron, a lucky politicians,

:00:49. > :00:54.whose luck just ran out. A vote he offered on our place

:00:55. > :01:05.in the world, a vote he lost. I was absolutely clear

:01:06. > :01:07.about my belief that Britain is stronger, safer and better off

:01:08. > :01:09.inside the European Union. But the British people have made

:01:10. > :01:13.a very clear decision to take a different path, and as such,

:01:14. > :01:17.I think the country requires fresh leadership to take it

:01:18. > :01:21.in this direction. I will do everything I can

:01:22. > :01:24.as Prime Minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months

:01:25. > :01:28.but I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain

:01:29. > :01:32.that steers our country A defeat so big the consequences

:01:33. > :01:38.so complex, the Prime Minister and maybe his family too,

:01:39. > :01:42.have had enough. I've said before that Britain can

:01:43. > :01:46.survive outside the European Union Now the decision has been

:01:47. > :01:53.made to leave, we need I love this country and I feel

:01:54. > :02:01.honoured to have served it. I will do everything I can in future

:02:02. > :02:06.to help this great country succeed. But as that door close,

:02:07. > :02:15.what lies next? Boris Johnson, whose decision

:02:16. > :02:24.to push the Out campaign, gave it pulling power that might

:02:25. > :02:29.have made the difference. He walked into hostility,

:02:30. > :02:35.not a victory parade The winning side, a campaign office,

:02:36. > :02:42.not a Whitehall address Michael Gove and Boris Johnson,

:02:43. > :02:55.eager to praise their friend and rival, David Cameron,

:02:56. > :02:59.and mark the scale of To those who may be anxious,

:03:00. > :03:04.whether at home or abroad, this does not mean that the United Kingdom

:03:05. > :03:07.will be in any way less united, nor indeed does it mean that it

:03:08. > :03:11.will be any less European. And I want to speak to the millions

:03:12. > :03:16.of people, directly to the millions of people, who did not

:03:17. > :03:20.vote for this outcome, especially young people,

:03:21. > :03:23.who may feel that this decision in some way involves pulling up

:03:24. > :03:29.a draw bridge or any kind of isolationism, as I think

:03:30. > :03:37.the very opposite is true. As we move forward we should be

:03:38. > :03:40.in no doubt that Britain is embarking on a new chapter

:03:41. > :03:43.but one that is in line Now, we have a new chance to extend

:03:44. > :03:50.that openness even further. We can build a new, stronger

:03:51. > :03:54.and a more positive relationship with our European neighbours

:03:55. > :03:56.based on free trade It was nearly 5am before

:03:57. > :04:03.the result was final. The British people have spoken,

:04:04. > :04:12.the answer is we are out. But an early push for out

:04:13. > :04:14.in Sunderland had given a taste Across the north of England

:04:15. > :04:23.in market and coastal towns votes Wales chose out too,

:04:24. > :04:28.only sad faces for Remain-held London, Scotland

:04:29. > :04:34.and Northern Ireland. From tears to cheers they had been

:04:35. > :04:37.waiting so long to race, Nigel Farage, the first party leader

:04:38. > :04:41.to emerge up and early. It is a victory for

:04:42. > :04:44.ordinary, decent people. A victory against the big merchant

:04:45. > :04:48.banks and big businesses I'm proud of everybody

:04:49. > :04:54.that had the courage in the face of the threats,

:04:55. > :04:58.all that they were told, that they had the guts to stand up

:04:59. > :05:01.and do the right thing. As the Prime Minister said

:05:02. > :05:03.he was off, doubts spread Corbyn, what is your reaction

:05:04. > :05:10.to the prime minister resigning? Awkward, he now face

:05:11. > :05:14.as vote of confidence. The unions back him but many MPs

:05:15. > :05:16.believe he hung back I campaigned the length

:05:17. > :05:23.and the breadth of the country on a party position to support

:05:24. > :05:26.remaining in Europe, recognising the deficiencies

:05:27. > :05:29.in the European Union, I made the points about jobs,

:05:30. > :05:40.environment protection. But Remain smiles in Scotland

:05:41. > :05:43.could lead to another split as they warned with England choosing

:05:44. > :05:45.out and Scotland in, the SNP is calling for another vote

:05:46. > :05:48.on Scottish independence. It is a statement of the obvious,

:05:49. > :05:55.that the option of a second referendum must be on the table

:05:56. > :05:58.and it is on the table. People are coming to Westminster

:05:59. > :06:01.to witness this day, perhaps to make sense

:06:02. > :06:05.of what is really going on. In the last 24 hours we have decided

:06:06. > :06:09.to leave the European Union an institution that has been part

:06:10. > :06:12.of the fabric of our As a result, the Prime Minister

:06:13. > :06:21.resigned. There will be someone else in charge

:06:22. > :06:27.in Number Ten from the autumn and some of Labour's MPs are trying

:06:28. > :06:30.to force their leader, The First Minister of Scotland,

:06:31. > :06:35.Nicola Sturgeon, has said there must be a second

:06:36. > :06:37.referendum on the other union, the one between Scotland

:06:38. > :06:40.and the rest of the UK. It's not so much that this result

:06:41. > :06:43.has turned politics upside down but it shattered

:06:44. > :06:49.the established conventions. This flag will become

:06:50. > :06:52.a British souvenir, this one, But our decision might

:06:53. > :06:58.trigger so much change, we may watch for years before

:06:59. > :07:06.the banner is final. The Conservative MP and Leave

:07:07. > :07:09.campaigner, Daniel Hannan, says there was no promise to reduce

:07:10. > :07:12.immigration by leaving He told the BBC's Big Decision

:07:13. > :07:17.programme Vote Leave had never said there is going to be

:07:18. > :07:30.some radical decline, We've never said that there is going

:07:31. > :07:35.to be some radical decline, that we are going to shock the door, let

:07:36. > :07:40.alone that the status of anyone here being affected. That is completely

:07:41. > :07:47.off the table. You think people wanted... What they wanted was

:07:48. > :07:51.control, some sense that ultimately, we are in charge roughly of who

:07:52. > :07:56.comes in and in roughly what numbers. That is a theoretical

:07:57. > :08:02.concept. I've been on that campaign trail longer than almost anywhere,

:08:03. > :08:08.at every speech I say, if you think we are going to be getting rid of

:08:09. > :08:14.Polish barmaids or airlifting people from the Costas, forget it. I'm sure

:08:15. > :08:18.you have been saying that that other members of the leave campaign have

:08:19. > :08:21.been saying the opposite. It has been a nasty, divisive campaign,

:08:22. > :08:26.partly because it has been anti-outside world, anti-immigrant.

:08:27. > :08:31.People don't want the borders shot but the promises made by the leave

:08:32. > :08:34.campaign is we are going to put more money in the NHS, we will bring

:08:35. > :08:40.migration Dan Rather clear, we will keep the benefits while being

:08:41. > :08:46.outside the EU, they have to deliver and it will be very, very hard

:08:47. > :08:48.indeed. Even that will take time. I don't want to build up expectations

:08:49. > :09:00.but that will happen. Picking up on what Daniel Hannan was

:09:01. > :09:06.saying, I was in Basildon last night, the only borough to gain Ukip

:09:07. > :09:11.seeks similar collections. It is your brisket country. The vote leave

:09:12. > :09:15.campaign is that I talked to and the Ukip members of the hall last night,

:09:16. > :09:20.they all said the number one issue was immigration. Now we get senior

:09:21. > :09:24.members of the leave campaign saying they never promised that immigration

:09:25. > :09:27.would come down if we left the European Union, does that square

:09:28. > :09:34.written Mark you remember during that last big debate, it was the

:09:35. > :09:40.first time I had heard that three pressed on what exactly what -- was

:09:41. > :09:44.their target for migration. They refuse to put a number on it, they

:09:45. > :09:49.refused to say it would come down or over what period but voters had

:09:50. > :09:52.certainly thought by that point and in enough numbers that the message

:09:53. > :09:58.was quite clear, leaving the European Union meant net migration

:09:59. > :10:02.would come down, the assumption was that for quite quickly but I don't

:10:03. > :10:06.think anyone has quite worked out, including the Leave campaign how

:10:07. > :10:12.that would work. The working establishment has said the working

:10:13. > :10:17.migrants will stay, the question is over what time period there will be

:10:18. > :10:23.changes to freedom of movement. It was not clear at all. Nigel Farage

:10:24. > :10:26.was asked about the ?350 million commitment plastered on all the vote

:10:27. > :10:33.leave buses that that money would lead the European Union, but was

:10:34. > :10:37.wrong, and he said this morning, the leave campaign were wrong to make

:10:38. > :10:41.that promise because it couldn't be delivered. I think there will be

:10:42. > :10:46.perhaps voters now thinking, hang on, what exact we have we voted for

:10:47. > :10:53.here? And Daniel Hannan may confirm that view with what he was saying.

:10:54. > :10:58.It is it a more than a year since David Cameron secured a majority for

:10:59. > :11:04.the Conservatives in several years, he was lauded as the future of this

:11:05. > :11:11.country, certainly by his party. Now he is resigning. How on earth did we

:11:12. > :11:14.get to this stage? I'm sure as far as he's concerned is what makes it

:11:15. > :11:19.so tragic is he has been destroyed on the single issue that he tried

:11:20. > :11:25.for a long time to avoid altogether, the same issue that had pulled down

:11:26. > :11:30.misses that job, the same issue that made John Major's life in office a

:11:31. > :11:36.complete misery, the issue of Europe. He came in thinking Europe

:11:37. > :11:39.is one of those issues that obsesses some Tory backbenchers, a growing

:11:40. > :11:44.number of Tory backbenchers over the last couple of parliaments, but he

:11:45. > :11:49.always thought, it doesn't really tickle voters, they are not about

:11:50. > :11:53.this, they want us to be a far broader party so that is what he

:11:54. > :11:57.tried by a long time to avoid Europe buddy had to keep placating his

:11:58. > :12:02.party and keeping them on board and offering them enough and I think

:12:03. > :12:05.that is one of the reasons he offered this referendum back in

:12:06. > :12:10.2013, it was to placate the party, he was also worried about Ukip boat

:12:11. > :12:19.is eating away at the Conservative Party vote. This referendum was born

:12:20. > :12:22.out of a need of party management. He was dealing with a serious

:12:23. > :12:26.problem and he has said, there was a real public popular clamour for

:12:27. > :12:30.this, and need to regret the question that have not been asked of

:12:31. > :12:35.the British people for 40 years and we see in the answer that millions

:12:36. > :12:38.and millions of people are dissatisfied and angry about the

:12:39. > :12:45.European Union and want to leave. But it is extraordinary that within

:12:46. > :12:52.13 months to become the first Tory leader to deliver a majority in 23

:12:53. > :12:56.years, he has imploded like this. We know Jeremy Corbyn is facing

:12:57. > :13:05.problems because there is the sense of the Sun that he didn't fight hard

:13:06. > :13:12.enough for the Remain side. A vote of no confidence has been put

:13:13. > :13:15.forward. He has so much support in the grass roots, will that kill off

:13:16. > :13:20.any suggestion he will be challenged? Since he became leader,

:13:21. > :13:26.there has been huge disquiet in the parliament we party since he was a

:13:27. > :13:31.let it. He has had very little support in there but huge support

:13:32. > :13:37.among the grassroots that have been swelled by all these new ?3 members

:13:38. > :13:41.that have joined. There is jury with how he conducted himself in this

:13:42. > :13:45.referendum campaign. He will say he did enough but the truth is swathe

:13:46. > :13:51.of the old, traditional, Labour working class heartlands voted for

:13:52. > :13:53.Leave and there are many Labour Party and politicians think he

:13:54. > :13:57.should have done more and this could be the moment to get him and pounce.

:13:58. > :14:01.There is this move to have a confidence motion against him. I

:14:02. > :14:05.think they want to put pressure on him so that he falls on his sword,

:14:06. > :14:11.actually, and just decides to quit. To avoid the necessity of triggering

:14:12. > :14:16.a proper challenge to him. Difficult to see how it is going to un-fold.

:14:17. > :14:19.But more importantly than that, Labour has a colossal existential

:14:20. > :14:24.issue about where it goes from here. If there is this sort between the

:14:25. > :14:28.Labour Party, the Parliamentary Labour Party and swathes of the

:14:29. > :14:32.country that it could reliably bank on over the years to deliver it

:14:33. > :14:38.their vote, how does it reshape now which in mark and is it stand for?

:14:39. > :14:43.What issues does it need to address? It is much bigger than Jeremy

:14:44. > :14:50.Corbyn. Every briefly, Ukip, today it is as much about Nigel Farage as

:14:51. > :14:56.it is about David Cameron and his resignation. Nigel Farage Pritchard

:14:57. > :15:02.for this referendum. We know they will all lose their jobs, what

:15:03. > :15:07.happens to do kit, is it finished? I think they remain MEPs and all the

:15:08. > :15:15.actually leave. Two, five, whatever. Minimum two years. It is an

:15:16. > :15:21.extraordinary thing for him to have pulled off. He has one MP. He has

:15:22. > :15:24.tried to get into Parliament many times himself and failed. He has

:15:25. > :15:33.been in the vanguard of this movement. Within Leave circles, he

:15:34. > :15:37.is receiving huge credit for pushing this far. Where did Ukip go now

:15:38. > :15:41.written Mark I don't know. But the fact that the people that we are

:15:42. > :15:46.talking about, we all talk about them today. Communities that feel

:15:47. > :15:53.completely disconnected from mains dream politics from main party

:15:54. > :15:58.politics. Many of them have found a voice in Ukip and I think Ukip will

:15:59. > :16:03.continue to make big mileage in those communities even though the EU

:16:04. > :16:08.issue is done now, they have achieved their goal, I still think

:16:09. > :16:09.there was a large Ukip sized hole in British politics, potentially, for

:16:10. > :16:14.years to come. The pattern of voting varied widely

:16:15. > :16:17.across the different nations Scotland - which voted

:16:18. > :16:20.overwhelmingly to stay IN the European Union -

:16:21. > :16:23.is now highly likely to face another This morning brought the dawning

:16:24. > :16:28.realisation that a vote to leave the EU might mean a vote

:16:29. > :16:30.on leaving the UK. Protesters who vowed to stay outside

:16:31. > :16:32.the Scottish Parliament until the country is independent,

:16:33. > :16:36.might not have to wait too long. Nicola Sturgeon says another

:16:37. > :16:39.referendum is on the cards. Scotland faces the prospect

:16:40. > :16:43.of being taken out of I regard that as

:16:44. > :16:50.democratically unacceptable. It is therefore a statement

:16:51. > :16:53.of the obvious that the option of a second referendum must be

:16:54. > :16:56.on the table. Are you confident that

:16:57. > :16:59.in the potential turmoil that could follow a Brexit,

:17:00. > :17:02.that those are circumstances in which Scotland would want

:17:03. > :17:05.to vote for independence? I think it is in my responsibility

:17:06. > :17:10.to seek the stability and the certainty that membership

:17:11. > :17:13.of the European Union gives us. So, Nicola Sturgeon didn't say

:17:14. > :17:16.that she would definitely hold another referendum on Scottish

:17:17. > :17:20.independence, but she did say She believes this Brexit

:17:21. > :17:25.will make Scots more likely But she will not set

:17:26. > :17:29.the date until she is sure. She knows she can't afford

:17:30. > :17:33.to lose another referendum. Don't assume independence

:17:34. > :17:36.is now inevitable, says The 1.6 million votes cast in this

:17:37. > :17:42.referendum in favour of remaining do not wipe away the 2 million votes

:17:43. > :17:45.that were cast less And we do not address the challenges

:17:46. > :17:51.of leaving the European Union by leaving our own union

:17:52. > :17:54.of nations, our biggest market Voters remember being told less

:17:55. > :17:59.than two years ago that to stay in the EU they had to vote to stay

:18:00. > :18:03.in the UK. So many are now starting

:18:04. > :18:07.to think again. I believe in the Union,

:18:08. > :18:14.but I suspect this time round, I don't know, I personally know

:18:15. > :18:19.a lot of people who have already Another referendum could be

:18:20. > :18:42.at least two years away. Our correspondent is in Cardiff to

:18:43. > :18:46.gauge reaction to the vote in Wales. Wales is actually the part of the

:18:47. > :18:49.United Kingdom that gets the most revenue from the European Union.

:18:50. > :18:57.Many people will be surprised by this vote from them. Yes, Wales did

:18:58. > :19:02.vote to leave the European Union, 17 of the 22 local authorities here

:19:03. > :19:07.voted to go. Some of those who have been campaigning for the leave vote

:19:08. > :19:11.were celebrating today, members of Ukip and also some of the Welsh

:19:12. > :19:14.Conservatives who had backed that campaign. A rally was held in

:19:15. > :19:22.Newport to the tunes of the great escape but it was largely Labour

:19:23. > :19:26.heartland, some of the poorest communities of Wales who have

:19:27. > :19:32.received the lions share of EU structural funding over the past 16

:19:33. > :19:37.years who did vote to leave. Some of those poorest parts of Europe,

:19:38. > :19:42.indeed. And as you said, Wales has been met -- net beneficiary of EU

:19:43. > :19:49.funds over the years. But people here were not convinced by the

:19:50. > :19:53.economic arguments to stay. British led issues of immigration,

:19:54. > :19:59.sovereignty, and national security were decisive for Welsh voters. The

:20:00. > :20:02.First Minister here in Wales was rather glum this morning, Carwyn

:20:03. > :20:07.Jones, when he held a press conference to give his reaction to

:20:08. > :20:15.the vote to leave here. He has spoken about changes but now may

:20:16. > :20:18.need to be done to the devolution settlement. He was to change the

:20:19. > :20:23.Barnett formula, the calculation by which the funding comes from

:20:24. > :20:29.Westminster to Wales. He says that needs to be done sooner than --

:20:30. > :20:38.rather than later. He also spoke about unity, about the communities

:20:39. > :20:40.that he felt had been left out. Too many people in these communities

:20:41. > :20:45.feel that politics and our economy has left them behind and we have a

:20:46. > :20:54.real task ahead to un-dude that sense of a nation. I said after the

:20:55. > :20:58.May election that it represented the start of the conversation without

:20:59. > :21:03.communities and I meant it. For the good of our nation and its future,

:21:04. > :21:10.we must now come together and rise to the challenges before us. So,

:21:11. > :21:16.challenges that he mentioned but what Carwyn Jones also said was that

:21:17. > :21:19.he would be having conversations with people in Westminster as soon

:21:20. > :21:29.as possible and that Wales needed to be part of those discussions as a

:21:30. > :21:33.priority. The Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies, he said

:21:34. > :21:42.Welsh politics has changed ever. Is that a fair assessment? He did talk

:21:43. > :21:48.about the landscape here in Wales perhaps changing. It has already.

:21:49. > :21:51.The Senate here is behind me, the National Assembly for Wales, and in

:21:52. > :21:57.the recent assembly elections in seven weeks ago, seven members of

:21:58. > :22:02.Ukip now sit in the building behind me so there have been changes in the

:22:03. > :22:04.landscape of Wales but what some commentators have been talking about

:22:05. > :22:10.is the ratio ship of labour with their core supporters here. They

:22:11. > :22:15.didn't manage to connect, they didn't manage to get the vote out

:22:16. > :22:20.and Carwyn Jones faced some tough questions on that score in that

:22:21. > :22:25.press conference this morning. He didn't take responsibility but he

:22:26. > :22:30.did say he felt he had been able to do all that he could in the short

:22:31. > :22:34.time frame that they had. He felt that it was in the right time,

:22:35. > :22:38.certainly for Wales, to have this referendum, coming so soon after the

:22:39. > :22:41.assembly elections, that they hadn't been able to do the campaign that

:22:42. > :22:46.they wanted to. Whether that did have a bearing on the result, of

:22:47. > :22:56.course, we'll have to wait and see what happens.

:22:57. > :23:01.We caught up with our Northern Ireland correspondent and he

:23:02. > :23:05.explained why the county might be thinking about another referendum.

:23:06. > :23:10.The Secretary of State has ruled that out but in order to call a

:23:11. > :23:14.border poll, you do need to be in a position where you actually have

:23:15. > :23:19.some evidence that it would be likely to get carried and the

:23:20. > :23:23.reality is that isn't the case at the moment. However, it does show

:23:24. > :23:27.that there are strong feelings about this and certainly Irish republicans

:23:28. > :23:30.are looking across the water at Scotland and seeing things there and

:23:31. > :23:37.perhaps seeing an opportunity in this. Other people say the

:23:38. > :23:41.opportunities are... Arlene Foster has been talk about business here

:23:42. > :23:44.and saying that she accepts there will be challenges ahead but they

:23:45. > :23:48.could also be opportunities. But I have to say when he talked to people

:23:49. > :23:54.and businesses in places like this, this is new array, a border town,

:23:55. > :23:58.and these busy roads you see going through, a lot of them carrying

:23:59. > :24:04.cross-border traffic, Newbury is between Belfast and Dublin, that has

:24:05. > :24:08.been a good position to try and get business. The rarity is it doesn't

:24:09. > :24:12.know what is game to happen to that border and that is a concern

:24:13. > :24:17.followed of people here. The idea that you could have customs

:24:18. > :24:20.checkpoints or extra security, as was suggested by some during this

:24:21. > :24:24.referendum campaign, they really don't know what that is going to

:24:25. > :24:28.mean. You do have people now starting to wake up what some of the

:24:29. > :24:35.conferences of the referendum vote will be. Already, people in Northern

:24:36. > :24:40.Ireland currently have the right to hold two passable, an Irish one and

:24:41. > :24:45.a British one, and today, there have actually been around for

:24:46. > :24:50.applications for Irish passports, they will remain EU passports. It

:24:51. > :24:54.hasn't just happened in nationalist areas, it is also happened in

:24:55. > :24:58.unionist areas. People are starting to think about what this referendum

:24:59. > :25:02.might mean and in this part of the UK that has a land border with

:25:03. > :25:10.another EU country, it really is going to have some sort of impact.

:25:11. > :25:17.With the now is Jo Phillips, she backed the Remain campaign in the

:25:18. > :25:21.referendum. Europe is an issue that failed Margaret Thatcher, it made

:25:22. > :25:27.John Major's life a misery, it is now taken Mr Cameron out as well.

:25:28. > :25:30.Now that there has been a referendum, can any future Tory

:25:31. > :25:37.leader now feel confident that they are not going to be felled by this

:25:38. > :25:43.issue again. Well, that is the $64,000 question. Accosted to

:25:44. > :25:48.Schnoor historian has said that this has reset the dial for British

:25:49. > :25:53.politics. I don't think the question is so much about another Tory Prime

:25:54. > :25:58.Minister whoever that may be, or the next Labour leader, it is what

:25:59. > :26:03.happens now to the political make-up of Britain. As Ben was just saying,

:26:04. > :26:09.Nigel Farage, he doesn't even have a seat in the House of Commons, he is

:26:10. > :26:15.a one trick wonder, his pony has one, but now what does he do? He's

:26:16. > :26:18.got Douglas Carswell sit in there. Personally, I think this time for

:26:19. > :26:24.reshaping and I think there will be a realignment. There is obviously a

:26:25. > :26:28.lot of disagreement and distrust and disappointment with Jeremy Corbyn. I

:26:29. > :26:32.don't think David Cameron had any option but to do what he did this

:26:33. > :26:38.morning but I think it is very sad. Home, I think is the personal shame.

:26:39. > :26:42.It depends very much on who takes over and who becomes the next Prime

:26:43. > :26:48.Minister, as whether they will be a healing leader of this country. But

:26:49. > :26:54.it has to be a Brexiter. Well, does it have to be? It could be somebody

:26:55. > :26:59.like to reason me. It doesn't have to be someone shouting, it doesn't

:27:00. > :27:03.have to be someone like Boris who is your peers contender at the moment,

:27:04. > :27:08.it could be to reason me, it could be Stephen Crabb, his name is often

:27:09. > :27:12.mentioned and few of us had much awareness of him until he was

:27:13. > :27:19.promoted to welfare rem pensions secretary. But the majority of the

:27:20. > :27:27.parties Eurosceptic. At the moment. Now that the bond -- vote has gone

:27:28. > :27:30.their way, people will get back into their boxes? I think people will

:27:31. > :27:35.realise the magnitude of what has happened. There will be a summit

:27:36. > :27:40.next week in Brussels that David Cameron won't attend, it is

:27:41. > :27:43.basically, they will be talked about us like who gets access on a

:27:44. > :27:48.Saturday and who gets to take is that the Christmas holidays it is

:27:49. > :27:53.this is an ugly access battle that will go on. It depends very much on

:27:54. > :27:59.how quickly we can trigger Article 50 to begin the withdrawal. It will

:28:00. > :28:03.also be a huge job for whoever is the leader -- leader of this

:28:04. > :28:09.country, labour or Tory, to manage the bureaucratic machinery to

:28:10. > :28:13.dismantle Europe. One new -- once you trigger article 50, you know

:28:14. > :28:19.you've got two years ticking but it is white clear that they want us to

:28:20. > :28:25.get on and get out. Pack your bags, don't worry about taking the CDs, it

:28:26. > :28:30.is over. What about the suggestion that there will be a snap general

:28:31. > :28:36.election? Gordon Brown didn't have a mandate when he took over from Tony

:28:37. > :28:48.Blair. They will have to have a mandate. Before the end of the year?

:28:49. > :28:58.I would put money on it being before Christmas. I am not admitting women

:28:59. > :29:04.but I would put money on it. -- not a betting woman. But doing what Tony

:29:05. > :29:11.Blair did, because the succession, if Boris Johnson wants to wind, he

:29:12. > :29:16.placed his shirt on Brexit. And finally, I suppose, splitting the

:29:17. > :29:19.country right down the middle, 49, 50, whatever, bringing this country

:29:20. > :29:32.together, whoever winds that election, and somehow -- wins that

:29:33. > :29:35.election, and bringing together to -- two very different visions of

:29:36. > :29:39.what this country should be like... Yes, but it is clear watching the

:29:40. > :29:42.results coming in last night that it is divided and there is a chunk

:29:43. > :29:45.which is London and the south-east, and there is another chunk which is

:29:46. > :29:49.completely outside of this Westminster bubble you and I have

:29:50. > :29:52.spent so many years then, which is why whoever leads the country next,

:29:53. > :30:00.and whoever leads both of the main parties, has got to be a healer. It

:30:01. > :30:03.has to be somebody who says, OK, the decision has been made, but now

:30:04. > :30:06.there is a lot of careful negotiation. The decision has been

:30:07. > :30:10.made by the future of our country rests not so much on the decisions

:30:11. > :30:14.we made yesterday, but on what happens next, and that will require

:30:15. > :30:17.a lot more skill than the blustering and buffoonery we have seen of the

:30:18. > :30:23.last few weeks. But at the same time those who are in the Leave camp, who

:30:24. > :30:33.was successful, no feel their voices have been heard, in communities for

:30:34. > :30:36.from this place behind us, they want results. They said to the campaign

:30:37. > :30:41.that immigration was an important issue, issues around sovereignty and

:30:42. > :30:44.so forth. The likes of Boris Johnson and whoever, they cannot be dragging

:30:45. > :30:48.their feet on this, and they certainly cannot be going around

:30:49. > :30:52.saying, actually, we did not make a promise. On bringing down

:30:53. > :30:55.immigration totals. And thereby lies the unmasking of the appalling

:30:56. > :31:00.nature of the campaign, on both sides, it has to be said, but on the

:31:01. > :31:05.Leave side, the idea that Turkey was going to join had we not voted

:31:06. > :31:08.Brexit, that would have been 23 million people arriving this very

:31:09. > :31:15.minute. The ?350 million live each week that could be spent on the

:31:16. > :31:20.National Health Service. But by the same token, the sky has not fallen

:31:21. > :31:23.in. Not yet. But the stock exchanges will be, and I would want an

:31:24. > :31:27.umbrella. And it is not just us but it is about the rest of the world.

:31:28. > :31:31.This has sent out a message to the very far right wing parties in the

:31:32. > :31:34.rest of Europe. There are elections coming up in France, Holland and

:31:35. > :31:45.other parts of Europe next year. Other European leaders will be

:31:46. > :31:48.looking to what has happened. That is why they want us to move quickly,

:31:49. > :31:51.to get out of the way quickly, and that is why I suspect there will be

:31:52. > :31:54.a cohort of people who want to make our exit quite difficult to try to

:31:55. > :31:56.put others' off, but if this has triggered the rise of the right wing

:31:57. > :32:01.across Europe, that is a terrible legacy from yesterday's vote. Good

:32:02. > :32:04.to speak to you. Thank you. The result was relatively close, the

:32:05. > :32:07.turnout high and the regional and national variations were stark.

:32:08. > :32:09.Our correspondent Christian Fraser has been taking a closer look

:32:10. > :32:13.OK, let's take an in-depth result at some of these final numbers.

:32:14. > :32:16.So this is the result - 51.9% for Leave, 48.1% for Remain.

:32:17. > :32:18.The total number of eligible voters was 46.5 million,

:32:19. > :32:20.the turnout was 72.2% - the biggest turnout

:32:21. > :32:25.Now, they thought a bigger turnout would be good news for Remain -

:32:26. > :32:30.The margin of victory was six points - 53% Leave, 46% Remain.

:32:31. > :32:31.A different story in Scotland, of course.

:32:32. > :32:40.Slightly lower turnout but no question over the result,

:32:41. > :32:42.In Edinburgh incidentally it was 74% in favour.

:32:43. > :32:46.A big turnout but only five of the 22 voting areas

:32:47. > :33:09.Slightly lower turnout but no question over the result,

:33:10. > :33:12.In Edinburgh incidentally it was 74% in favour.

:33:13. > :33:16.A big turnout but only five of the 22 voting areas

:33:17. > :33:18.Rounded up, it was the same result as England.

:33:19. > :33:20.Cardiff was Remain but Swansea was Leave.

:33:21. > :33:22.And in Northern Ireland, there at the bottom,

:33:23. > :33:25.again lower than average turnout but a sizeable vote for Remain,

:33:26. > :33:28.especially in the areas along the border - three out of four areas

:33:29. > :33:32.The pollsters, the City, the bookies, they all got it wrong

:33:33. > :33:34.because they didn't understand what was going north of London.

:33:35. > :33:37.Look at this area here - all blue in the rural parts

:33:38. > :33:40.of England, into the North and North West, the key

:33:41. > :33:42.This is the Labour areas of Blackburn, Rossendale

:33:43. > :33:46.Boston in Lincolnshire, the highest vote for

:33:47. > :33:48.Leave in the country - not a Labour seat,

:33:49. > :33:51.but a Tory one this time, and according to the 2011 census,

:33:52. > :33:53.home to the highest population of Eastern European migrants

:33:54. > :34:03.Down here, Great Yarmouth, a Ukip mayor, again one of the top

:34:04. > :34:05.five Leave votes in the country, over 70% wanted out.

:34:06. > :34:07.We have there showed you the nationwide split

:34:08. > :34:12.It's far too early to give a definitive analysis but this one

:34:13. > :34:14.poll conducted yesterday suggested 27% of 18 to 25-year-olds wanted

:34:15. > :34:22.to leave compared to 73% wanting to stay in Europe.

:34:23. > :34:25.As people get older it starts to swing the other way.

:34:26. > :34:28.For those over 65 it suggests 60% wanted to leave EU

:34:29. > :34:51.Britain will be the first state ever to leave the European Union.

:34:52. > :34:54.It's sent shock waves though the EU with European leaders

:34:55. > :34:56.expressing their dismay but calling for negotiations to end Britain's

:34:57. > :34:58.membership as soon as possible to avoid prolonging uncertainty.

:34:59. > :35:00.Some national party leaders called for similar referendums

:35:01. > :35:04.Our Europe editor Katya Adler has been following the reaction

:35:05. > :35:32.The day a British decision delivered an almighty blow across a continent.

:35:33. > :35:41.Europe's media and its leaders were stunned. Even the normally impassive

:35:42. > :35:45.ones... TRANSLATION: Lets not beat around the bush. Today marks a

:35:46. > :35:46.turning point for Europe and the project of European unity. They were

:35:47. > :36:02.scared, too. Le danger est immense... The French

:36:03. > :36:08.president warned of what the script as immense dangers. He spoke about

:36:09. > :36:19.the dangers of France having its own in - out referendum.

:36:20. > :36:25.Brexit for Le Pen was our political present. TRANSLATION: Yes, it is

:36:26. > :36:34.possible to leave the European Union. And Out, say Europe's

:36:35. > :36:39.readers, is out. They want to start the Brexit process now, not in

:36:40. > :36:44.October, as David Cameron suggests -- leaders. Frustration then for the

:36:45. > :36:47.Brussels bigwigs, for Cameron, for Brexit, and for this British

:36:48. > :36:54.journalist. Is this the beginning of the end of the European Union? No,

:36:55. > :36:57.said the president of the European Commission, and marched out. His

:36:58. > :37:02.refusal to properly question is indicative, you could say, of the

:37:03. > :37:12.aloof Brussels attitude critics so disliked. Discussion in Europe is

:37:13. > :37:16.nice with removing from Brexit to possible Frexit in France, for

:37:17. > :37:20.Sweden and more. I have never seen this continent more at Eurosceptic

:37:21. > :37:21.and all my time here. The future of the European union has never been

:37:22. > :37:30.more uncertain. Barack Obama has said he respected

:37:31. > :37:32.the UK's decision to leave. He praised David Cameron and said

:37:33. > :37:38.Britain's special relationship with the united states would endure. I

:37:39. > :37:42.spoke with British Prime Minister David Cameron. David has been an

:37:43. > :37:47.outstanding friend and partner on the global stage and, based on our

:37:48. > :37:51.conversation, I am continent the UK is committed to an orderly

:37:52. > :37:54.transmission out of the EU. We agreed our economic and financial

:37:55. > :37:57.teams will remain in close contact as we stay focused on ensuring

:37:58. > :38:01.economic growth and financial stability. I then spoke to

:38:02. > :38:05.Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and we agreed the United States and

:38:06. > :38:08.our European allies will work closely together in the weeks and

:38:09. > :38:14.months ahead. I do think that yesterday's thought speaks to the

:38:15. > :38:19.ongoing changes and challenges that are raised by globalisation. But

:38:20. > :38:23.while the UK's relationship with the EU will change, one thing that will

:38:24. > :38:28.not change is the special relationship that exists between our

:38:29. > :38:32.two nations. That will endure. The EU will remain one of our

:38:33. > :38:36.indispensable partners. Our Nato alliance will remain a cornerstone

:38:37. > :38:40.of global security and in a few weeks we will be meeting in Warsaw

:38:41. > :38:45.for the Nato summit. Our shared values, including our commitment to

:38:46. > :38:50.democracy, pluralism and opportunity for all people in a globalised

:38:51. > :38:54.world, that will continue to unite all of us. That was the president

:38:55. > :38:57.speaking a little earlier. Our correspondent Laura Dekker has been

:38:58. > :39:02.following developments in Washington. This is not the result

:39:03. > :39:07.the Obama administration had hoped for and is certainly not the result

:39:08. > :39:11.he had helped campaign for, and that extraordinary foray into British

:39:12. > :39:15.politics just a few weeks ago -- Laura Bicker. When he made that

:39:16. > :39:18.speech alongside David Cameron, people Britain they may be at the

:39:19. > :39:21.back of the queue when it came to trade deals and he was worried about

:39:22. > :39:24.security when it came to sharing information. Today he has softened

:39:25. > :39:29.his language and he has tried to calm the waters and he is speaking

:39:30. > :39:33.about continuity. He is trying to calm things for various reasons.

:39:34. > :39:39.Obviously the markets here are jittery, to say the least. There

:39:40. > :39:42.have been messages from the US Treasury saying, we have prepared

:39:43. > :39:46.this, we have been in discussion on this for weeks in case of Brexit. He

:39:47. > :39:50.is also trying to calm the waters in terms of security. We have heard

:39:51. > :39:53.from both the State Department and the Department of defence who say,

:39:54. > :39:57.look, there was to be sharing of information between the EU, between

:39:58. > :40:00.the UK and the US, when it comes to security, and it is clear both in

:40:01. > :40:08.his statement this morning and in the one he made this afternoon that

:40:09. > :40:11.he is praising the UK's role in Nato. He is saying, look, we will

:40:12. > :40:14.work together to try to continue to battle the so-called Islamic State

:40:15. > :40:18.group, but when it comes to continuity, he is trying to make

:40:19. > :40:22.clear that there will still be a relationship with the UK. How that

:40:23. > :40:26.relationship will play out will be interesting. He is also reaching out

:40:27. > :40:31.to the EU as well. It is interesting, both his call to David

:40:32. > :40:37.Cameron and two Angela Merkel, he is making sure, CN, look, here in the

:40:38. > :40:42.US we are trying to keep calm, see what the follow is and see what part

:40:43. > :40:45.we can play in it, but meanwhile, well you sort this out, do it in the

:40:46. > :40:57.easiest way possible -- he is saying, look.

:40:58. > :40:59.The outcome of the EU Referendum shocked financial markets.

:41:00. > :41:02.As counting took place overnight, and the Leave vote started

:41:03. > :41:04.to emerge as victorious, the pound fell to levels

:41:05. > :41:07.At one stage, it fell by more than 10%.

:41:08. > :41:09.By early afternoon, it had partially recovered,

:41:10. > :41:11.but was still nearly 8% down on the day.

:41:12. > :41:17.The governor of the Bank of England announced billions of pounds of

:41:18. > :41:21.support.,, Ahmed, our economics editor, has this report. After

:41:22. > :41:25.complacency, shock. After a quiet start red and cover the screens. The

:41:26. > :41:33.markets reacted with one quick word when Britain voted to leave the EU-

:41:34. > :41:37.cell. Anything that was risky. The pound and bank stocks fell and only

:41:38. > :41:41.tension rose -- sell. The Governor of the Bank of England went public,

:41:42. > :41:46.trying to bring some semblance of calm to torrid markets. We are well

:41:47. > :41:49.prepared for this. Her magister's Treasury and the Bank of England

:41:50. > :41:52.have engaged in extensive contingency planning and the

:41:53. > :41:58.Chancellor and I have remained in close contact, including through the

:41:59. > :42:04.night and this morning. Today has been an extremely difficult and

:42:05. > :42:07.turbulent day... It was a day reminiscent of when financial crises

:42:08. > :42:12.evolved, Black Wednesday of 1982, when Britain crashed out of the

:42:13. > :42:21.single currency. This time the pound fell further and investors are

:42:22. > :42:23.seeing risk everywhere. -- 1992. Sterling was down 10% at one stage

:42:24. > :42:27.and stock markets falling everywhere, particularly I have to

:42:28. > :42:32.say in the banks where we have seen stock prices fall over 20%. That is

:42:33. > :42:35.very unusual. There were plenty of predictions of economic chaos if

:42:36. > :42:41.Britain voted to leave the European Union. While some of those

:42:42. > :42:44.predictions will now be tested, today has seen falling stock

:42:45. > :42:47.markets, following pound, and sometimes it can also little distant

:42:48. > :42:53.from everyday life, but the effects can be very real. Take holidays.

:42:54. > :42:57.They can become more expensive as the pound weakens but a weaker

:42:58. > :43:03.sterling means a boost for export. House prices could fall, good news

:43:04. > :43:06.for first-time buyers. And there was no move on historically low interest

:43:07. > :43:12.rates. The probably will not be for a while. Ryanair, a prominent

:43:13. > :43:17.supporter of staying in the EU, but with Brexit ahead, the tune has now

:43:18. > :43:21.changed. We will not be able to make new investments in the UK. We will

:43:22. > :43:24.know probably have a two-year period of great uncertainty and what

:43:25. > :43:28.businesses want is certainty. We will look at making our investments

:43:29. > :43:33.and we will have a greater degree of certainty in economies like Germany,

:43:34. > :43:37.Italy, Ireland and Spain. A sunset or a sunrise? For some business

:43:38. > :43:41.leaders, it was time to focus on the positives. We have a choice to make.

:43:42. > :43:45.Do we want to have a positive vision for the future or is it going to be

:43:46. > :43:47.all negative? If we go down the negative route, we will have

:43:48. > :43:53.failure, if we go down the positive route we have a great opportunity.

:43:54. > :43:57.It was a long night in the City. The test now is for the UK economy. Can

:43:58. > :44:01.it flourish in a New World? Outside the European Union.

:44:02. > :44:04.What does it mean for the money in our pockets?

:44:05. > :44:07.Earlier I spoke to Paul Lewis from Money Box about the impact

:44:08. > :44:17.Well, of course, if you're going abroad, you will want to get your

:44:18. > :44:20.holiday money and it will be less for your pound, and I know there

:44:21. > :44:24.have been people queueing up before the vote to try to get a better

:44:25. > :44:27.rate, so you certainly have to take her of that, but if people are going

:44:28. > :44:30.on holiday later in the year there is little point in waiting because

:44:31. > :44:34.we just do not know what the currency is going to do, so my

:44:35. > :44:37.general rule stands. When you need currency, buy it. You cannot guess

:44:38. > :44:43.what the markets are going to do. But we are also hearing from the

:44:44. > :44:48.likes of the AA that petrol and diesel prices could go up as a

:44:49. > :44:52.result of the crash and sterling? Yes, absolutely. Oil is priced in

:44:53. > :44:55.dollars so that would mean oil could go up. The fuel to heat your home

:44:56. > :45:00.could go up. If it stays at the sorts of levels. Of course imported

:45:01. > :45:03.goods will also go up, because sterling is worth less. When you buy

:45:04. > :45:07.goods abroad, the cost of those will go up, the cost of raw materials to

:45:08. > :45:16.make good in this country will go up, that could all push up

:45:17. > :45:18.inflation, so we could see a rise in inflation, certainly, yes. A rise in

:45:19. > :45:21.inflation could have a knock-on effect on mortgages? Not directly,

:45:22. > :45:26.but certainly, and I have heard two conflicting views about mortgages

:45:27. > :45:29.from analysts today. Some say they could get cheaper, and new fixed

:45:30. > :45:33.rates at record low levels, but on the other hand it could be that the

:45:34. > :45:37.bank is cautious about lending and, yes, those levels might exist, but

:45:38. > :45:40.you would have to have an absolutely squeaky clean credit record to get

:45:41. > :45:45.them, so although they might be there, not everyone will get them. I

:45:46. > :45:48.am also hearing from a number of people that house prices will

:45:49. > :45:53.probably drift downwards. People do not know how much, but demand is

:45:54. > :45:56.likely to be reduced, because foreign buyers will be reduced. At

:45:57. > :46:01.the moment they will be waiting to see where the pound settles to see

:46:02. > :46:04.how much they get for their money, and if mortgages get more difficult

:46:05. > :46:08.that demand will also be reduced, so that could see house prices falling.

:46:09. > :46:12.The irony is house prices fall, but younger people particularly getting

:46:13. > :46:16.on the housing ladder may not be able to get the kind of mortgage in

:46:17. > :46:20.order to take advantage of all that? That is right. House prices may fall

:46:21. > :46:23.but it may not help young people take their first steps towards

:46:24. > :46:26.owning a home and I think that would be the real tragedy from that point

:46:27. > :46:29.of view, because people would see the value of their homes following

:46:30. > :46:33.but it actually would not help anybody to take that first step. Of

:46:34. > :46:37.course at the same time you might see rent going up. Paul Lewis from

:46:38. > :46:41.Money Box there. It's clear that the Midlands

:46:42. > :46:43.was something of a Brexit stronghold, with 29 out of 30 areas

:46:44. > :46:46.voting in favour of leaving. Our reporter Ben Godfrey has

:46:47. > :46:48.been speaking to people in the Black Country,

:46:49. > :46:50.where two out of three I'm happy - it's been the best

:46:51. > :46:54.day of my life today. Kay Crampton says she has no job

:46:55. > :46:57.and no council house, and blames immigration, so -

:46:58. > :46:59.no doubts - she voted These people are

:47:00. > :47:02.coming here to work. These immigrants have their own

:47:03. > :47:04.families in Tipton and Princes End. Well, if you watch the

:47:05. > :47:11.documentaries, they use our money to take back to their own country

:47:12. > :47:15.so they can have better lives... This is Union Street in Princes

:47:16. > :47:18.End, where it is a struggle to find those who believe in a political

:47:19. > :47:20.union with Europe. I voted out because, basically, it's

:47:21. > :47:26.an immigration thing really. You know, all these immigrants

:47:27. > :47:28.and them, taking our stuff. I don't believe in what

:47:29. > :47:31.the Government is doing - A decade ago this area saw the rise

:47:32. > :47:50.of the BNP. It was divisive, but they found

:47:51. > :47:52.support from the largely The EU referendum came along

:47:53. > :47:55.with another voice on immigration. Ukip's Nigel Farage

:47:56. > :47:58.brought his battle bus to the Black Country

:47:59. > :48:00.on the campaign trail. That should be a British passport,

:48:01. > :48:03.but the first two words Actually according to the 2011

:48:04. > :48:14.census, around one in 20 people in Sandwell were from

:48:15. > :48:16.other EU countries. Christophe from Poland told me

:48:17. > :48:19.he had been working for six He believes immigrants help

:48:20. > :48:21.fill the skills gap. I have seen many English

:48:22. > :48:24.people will come to work, come in for two, three

:48:25. > :48:26.hours, then back home, because the money is no good,

:48:27. > :48:29.the job is too hard, A Polish shop nearby

:48:30. > :48:35.does a brisk trade. Monica told me she is fully

:48:36. > :48:37.contributing to society. I have worked here 11 years and paid

:48:38. > :48:40.the tax and everything, and I have the kids as well,

:48:41. > :48:44.and the last one, he was born Princes End may be small,

:48:45. > :48:49.but these estates are now shaping In stark contrast with much

:48:50. > :48:59.of the rest of England, London voted overwhelmingly

:49:00. > :49:02.in favour of remaining in the UK. In Lambeth, 79% of voters

:49:03. > :49:04.rejected a Brexit - the strongest Remain vote

:49:05. > :49:06.in the mainland United Kingdom. Our reporter Alice Bhandhukravi has

:49:07. > :49:08.been talking to them, some of whom say today's result

:49:09. > :49:18.feels like a slap in the face. You have materials from Spain,

:49:19. > :49:20.from Italy, from Greece, A man of stone, manufacturing

:49:21. > :49:30.granite and marble worktops, but today he is definitely feeling

:49:31. > :49:33.the burden of Brexit. The welcome, it was just

:49:34. > :49:43.kind of like, yes, you were my neighbour,

:49:44. > :49:45.yes, I love you, and so on, You feel empty, you feel

:49:46. > :49:49.like the spirit is not In the Brazilian restaurant

:49:50. > :49:52.across the road, Maria, who is about to become a British

:49:53. > :49:54.citizen, says London It is kind of a slap

:49:55. > :49:58.in the face because London For example, people that are English

:49:59. > :50:03.and they don't want to do such a job as cleaning or manual labour,

:50:04. > :50:05.they are done by the immigrants. NIGEL FARAGE: Let June the 23rd

:50:06. > :50:08.go down in our history All eyes were on the Portuguese

:50:09. > :50:33.coverage of Brexit at the Estrella at the Estrella Cafe,

:50:34. > :50:35.where the resounding feeling Most of us have family here,

:50:36. > :50:38.we are very established, we don't know if it

:50:39. > :50:41.will affect us or not, I have my residency so I am

:50:42. > :50:47.not worried about that. I am worried about the country,

:50:48. > :50:51.I am worried about if the country will be stronger or less

:50:52. > :50:54.strong after that. But they are sure business

:50:55. > :50:57.is likely to be less strong at Luso Wines next door,

:50:58. > :50:58.where everything It will be bad for

:50:59. > :51:04.the business people. You are worried about

:51:05. > :51:06.the currency issue when you import your

:51:07. > :51:08.wine from Portugal? It will definitely be an anxious few

:51:09. > :51:15.months ahead as we all get our heads around

:51:16. > :51:20.what Brexit means for us. If one issue has decided

:51:21. > :51:23.the result of this referendum it's immigration -

:51:24. > :51:24.so claimed UkipP leader, Nigel Farage, in his moment

:51:25. > :51:26.of triumph this morning. The Remain campaign, he suggested,

:51:27. > :51:30.was unable to come up with an answer for voters unhappy with the freedom

:51:31. > :51:32.of movement, a freedom which has seen millions of EU migrants -

:51:33. > :51:35.many of them from Poland - Our correspondent, Matthew Price,

:51:36. > :51:41.reports now from Warsaw to see There was little today

:51:42. > :51:54.here on the other side of the water to suggest that change of such

:51:55. > :51:57.a seismic nature had come. It was a day for relaxing

:51:58. > :52:00.in the intense heat, and yet... "Goodbye, Great Britain," was the

:52:01. > :52:10.news on the radio in the workshops. Among the hundreds of thousands

:52:11. > :52:13.working in the UK is Igor, He heads back to London with his

:52:14. > :52:17.team for another job this weekend. Do you think this vote changes

:52:18. > :52:24.anything for Polish workers? Yes, it will change things

:52:25. > :52:26.for many Polish workers, but many of them will stay

:52:27. > :52:30.in England because they have good qualifications,

:52:31. > :52:37.they do good work for England. Not for them, not for their

:52:38. > :52:40.bosses, but for England. For Eastern Europe, released in 1989

:52:41. > :52:48.from the shackles of half a century of Soviet rule, joining the EU

:52:49. > :52:50.was seen as the moment when they finally entered

:52:51. > :52:57.the European family. And they benefited,

:52:58. > :52:59.with freedom of movement With so many Poles living

:53:00. > :53:03.in the United Kingdom, this nation arguably has more

:53:04. > :53:05.to lose than any other, because of Britain's decision

:53:06. > :53:08.to leave the European Union. It's a decision which has

:53:09. > :53:10.implications for the whole of the EU, implications

:53:11. > :53:12.about the block's future direction, indeed about its very survival,

:53:13. > :53:15.and it's a decision that marks the start of a process,

:53:16. > :53:18.a process that could well make it far more difficult for people

:53:19. > :53:20.from countries like this to come What now then for Renata

:53:21. > :53:37.and her son? A nurse, 32 years old,

:53:38. > :53:39.she wanted to move her She already has a job lined up

:53:40. > :53:51.in a private hospital. We are going there for him,

:53:52. > :54:10.only for him, to provide him with the future, opportunities

:54:11. > :54:12.for the future. And now I am worried,

:54:13. > :54:15.because he is Polish, and maybe Take a peek now at

:54:16. > :54:18.Dominika's timeline. The non-British EU friends

:54:19. > :54:20.that she made when she worked in the UK are all worried,

:54:21. > :54:26.as is Dominika herself, I am really surprised. I somehow

:54:27. > :54:34.didn't want to believe this would happen and, yes, I do feel sorry for

:54:35. > :54:42.all the Poles because I think for them it is a bit like, like this

:54:43. > :54:46.time they are not really welcomed. The referendum campaign itself

:54:47. > :54:49.established few certainties. Now the uncertainties unleashed by the

:54:50. > :54:51.decision to leave have spread, spread across the EU, spread right

:54:52. > :55:04.to its eastern borders. Hugh Edwards will have a round-up of

:55:05. > :55:12.all the day's drama here on this mum enters day after the weather, but

:55:13. > :55:16.first let's look back at some of the key moments of this day that has

:55:17. > :55:22.changed the UK and its relationship with the rest of the world. The

:55:23. > :55:26.decision taken in 1975 by this country to join the, Market has been

:55:27. > :55:37.reversed by this referendum to leave the EU. I've got my country back! I

:55:38. > :55:43.want to keep it. I feel like someone has kicked me in the stomach. We are

:55:44. > :55:48.much better trying to influence it from within than from without. 70

:55:49. > :55:52.million people said we must leave the European Union. We now need a

:55:53. > :55:55.Brexit Government. The British people have made a very clear

:55:56. > :55:59.decision to take a different path, and as such I think the country

:56:00. > :56:04.requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction. I thought we

:56:05. > :56:08.would have stayed and so, yes, very disappointed with the outcome. This

:56:09. > :56:12.is Britain. We are Great Britain. This is what we do. We have been

:56:13. > :56:16.around a long time, and we will sort it out, like we always do. This is

:56:17. > :56:35.our England. Our England. It has been a day of sunshine and

:56:36. > :56:39.showers and tomorrow will be another day of sunshine and showers. The

:56:40. > :56:40.distribution of those showers will be