It is the morning after the night before – the UK’s 47 year membership of the EU has come to an end. 
A geopolitical shift that has been three and a half years in the making has now happened - and we now turn our attention to an 11 month transition period.
Author and writer with the Mail on Sunday, Peter Hitchens has  been a long-standing critic of the EU and the UK’s place in it but did not agree with putting the issue to a referendum.
We asked him for his thoughts on this day.

It is the morning after the night before – the UK’s 47 year membership of the EU has come to an end. A geopolitical shift that has been three and a half years in the making has now happened - and we now turn our attention to an 11 month transition period. Author and writer with the Mail on Sunday, Peter Hitchens has been a long-standing critic of the EU and the UK’s place in it but did not agree with putting the issue to a referendum. We asked him for his thoughts on this day.

It is the morning after the night before – the UK’s 47 year membership of the EU has come to an end.&nbsp;
A geopolitical shift that has been three and a half years in the making has now happened - and we now turn our attention to an 11 month transition period.
Author and writer with the Mail on Sunday, Peter Hitchens has&nbsp; been a long-standing critic of the EU and the UK’s place in it but did not agree with putting the issue to a referendum.
We asked him for his thoughts on this day.

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