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As Brexit finally happens, Britons mark their moment of freedom while obeying stay-at-home orders William Booth, Michael Birnbaum, Karla Adam © Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images Police officers patrol the Embankment opposite the London Eye in a near-deserted London on New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31, 2020, as authorities in the city hope the message to stay at home is obeyed. LONDON After years of buildup to Brexit, a drama that obsessed and divided a nation, Britain left the European Union on Thursday night, not with a bang but with a recorded New Year s Eve light show on the BBC. With a newly emergent, highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus surging, even the most zealous Brexiteers marked the launch of “Global Britain” while tucked safely indoors, under the government’s “Tier 4” stay-at-home orders, which now apply to 75 percent of the population of England, alongside tough measures in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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