The verdict is in. And the world shook.
Not really.
As widely anticipated, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May offered up the grand plan for Brexit — and it involves Britain leaving the European Union’s single market.
In the end, the EU’s requirement that members adapt to and allow free movement of people, as well as adhere to binding institutions such as the European Court of Justice, helped make the decision that the U.K. must, in fact, leave the single market (and the customs union).
So it turns out that Brexit really does mean exit.