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Brexit

Black Wednesday

Wednesday Sep 16, 1992 at 04:33:00 PM
United Kingdom

Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister the following month, amid Conservative Party divisions arising partly from her increasingly Eurosceptic views. The UK and Italy were forced to withdraw from the ERM in September 1992, after the pound sterling and the lira came under pressure from currency speculation ("Black Wednesday").


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