When the UK voted to quit the European Union in 2016, the shock was palpable at home and abroad.
A stunned David Cameron was forced to resign as prime minister, and he was quickly replaced by Theresa May.
Donald Trump, who had given his support to the ‘Brexit’ campaign, seized on the populist uprising as a foretaste of America’s own ‘people’s revolt’ that would propel him into power later that year.
But more than two and a half years later, Brexit still hasn’t happened.
That’s because it is an unprecedented and hugely complicated process to extract a country from the EU and its legal framework, especially one that has been a member of the trading block for more than 40 years.
