Brexit: A new dawn, says Boris Johnson; an alarm bell, says Macron

The French President Emmanuel Macron warned Brexit was an "alarm bell" for the EU

After gifting Britons a Brexit bonus by raising the threshold by 10% to 9,500 pound per year for National Insurance contributions, hours before the United Kingdom concluded its membership of the European Union (EU), British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was conspicuously and purposely absent from any public event connected with the country’s divisive divorce after a 47-year marriage. 

As leavers led by the ultra-nationalist Brexit Party and remainers across the political spectrum took turns to celebrate and express chagrin respectively in London and the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh chose to keep the EU flag flying indefinitely to indicate their displeasure,