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The country will slip away an hour before midnight from the club it joined in 1973, moving into the no man's land of a transition period that preserves membership in all but name until the end of this year. At a stroke, the EU will be deprived of 15% of its economy, its biggest military spender and the world's international financial capital of London. The divorce will shape the fate of the United Kingdom - and determine its wealth - for generations to come.
"This is the moment when the dawn breaks and the curtain goes up on a new act," Prime Minister Boris Johnson will say in a television address, though he has given few clues about his post-Brexit plans beyond inspirational words. "This is the dawn of a new era," Johnson, one of the main leaders of the "Leave" campaign in the 2016, will say.
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