MOSCOW (Sputnik) – On June 23, the United Kingdom held a referendum in which 51.9 percent of voters, or 17.4 million people, opted for the country to leave the European Union.
"We will introduce, in the next Queen's Speech, a Great Repeal Bill that will remove the European Communities Act from the statute book…It will return power and authority to the elected institutions of our country. It means that the authority of EU law in Britain will end," May told the Sunday Times newspaper in an interview.
Earlier in September, UK’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said that the process of leaving the European Union for the United Kingdom would begin after invoking Article 50 of the EU Lisbon Treaty at the beginning of 2017, adding that it could be completed in less than two years.
Article 50 states that any country that wishes to leave the European Union must formally inform the European Council about its decision and then will have a period of two years to negotiate the terms of its withdrawal.
