MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom will be digitalizing its borders to get a better grasp on the numbers of people entering and leaving the country under a new.
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The beginning of the year held special importance for me for two reasons. On the personal front, it marked two decades since I first set foot in London, the city where I ended up spending the longest period of my life. And it was on January 1 that the United Kingdom reverted to being just a medium-sized island.
After 47 years of being part of the European Union, the UK quit the continent’s political embrace and enforced the 2016 Brexit vote. Nearly 35 million people had taken part in that referendum, by far the biggest in Britain’s history. The result had affected us all, irrespective of how we voted. Almost immediately, the pound collapsed, house sales were cancelled, and the Union Jack started to appear in cars and courtyards.