On Jan. 31, 2020 at 11 p.m. London time – midnight at EU headquarters in Brussels — the U.K. officially left the bloc after almost five decades of membership that had brought free movement and free trade between Britain and 27 other European countries.

A tiny silver fish which is an important food source in the North Sea will take centre stage Tuesday as the European Union and Britain square off over post-Brexit fishing rights. Because of climate change and commercial fishing,

Brexit was hugely divisive, both politically and socially, dominating political debate and with arguments about its impacts raging for years. Five years on from the day Britain formally left the EU, BBC Verify has examined five important ways Brexit has affected Britain.