Heartbreaking moment for those in Britain who wanted to stay with EU. 

European Council president Donald Tusk receives Brexit notification letter from the UK envoy, triggering the two-year countdown to British withdrawal from EU. Sir Tim Barrow, the UK's permanent representative in Brussels personally handed over a letter from the British government to the European council president, Tusk, to provide notification of Britain's intention to leave the European Union.


UK PM Theresa Mays letter to the European Council in Brussels, announcing the countrys intention to initiate a two-year negotiation process for its departure, was signed on Tuesday night.

The formal notification to the other 27 EU members of Britains intention to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty was signed by May at her 10 Downing Street office.


Image: British Prime Minister Theresa May in her office signs the official letter to European Council President Donald Tusk invoking Article 50 and the United Kingdom's intention to leave the EU on Tuesday in London. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Pool/Reuters