{"id":82302,"date":"2016-06-24T03:06:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T03:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/britain-votes-to-leave-the-european-union\/"},"modified":"2016-06-24T03:06:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T03:06:53","slug":"britain-votes-to-leave-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/britain-votes-to-leave-the-european-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain votes to leave the European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/6 June\/24  Jun\/542466970.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LONDON (SW): In a historic decision, Britain voted to leave the European Union in a referendum on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>With 90 percent of the votes counted, Brexit was ahead at 52 percent after the historic referendum.<\/p>\n<p>More than 17 million people voted in the referendum to sever ties with the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>According to Aljazeera, when asked whether David Cameron should resign in case of a Brexit, Nigel Farage, leader of United Kingdom Independent Party (UKIP) who had backed a vote to leave, said: &ldquo;immediately&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister David Camron had backed a vote to remain.<\/p>\n<p>Farage went on to accuse Cameron and former prime ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair of &ldquo;irresponsible, open-door mass-immigration that has damaged the quality of life of ordinary, decent people in this country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>During the vote, the UK&rsquo;s currency, Sterling, dropped to its lowest level since 1985.<\/p>\n<p>Though the high-profile political parties widely campaigned to stay in the European Union but the results of the referendum suggested that the citizens were determined on Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a historic decision, Britain voted to leave the European Union in a referendum on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}