Brexit begins as EU gets UK's divorce papers

UK PM Theresa May interpreted last year's vote for Brexit as a call to clamp down on immigration

Prime Minister Theresa May set the UK on course for leaving the European Union in two years’ time, a divorce that will redefine the country’s relationship with its largest trading partner and end decades of deepening political integration on the continent.
 
“After nine months the UK has delivered,” EU President Donald Tusk, said in a Twitter post at 1:28 pm in Brussels after receiving a hand-signed letter from May, which invoked Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, the formal exit mechanism.
 
May told lawmakers in London shortly afterwards that “this is a historic moment from which there can