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On the day the UK was supposed to leave the EU - how did we get into it in the first place?

Video. Watch: A history of the UK and EU's rocky relationship

Updated: 25/07/2019 - 18:43 GMT+2

If you think Brexit was the beginning of friction between Britain and the EU, you'd be wrong. Here are the key dates in their rocky relationship from the UK joining on 1 Jan 1973.

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