The Long, Uneasy Wait Is Over: Parties, Protests And Solemn Silence Greet Brexit

The Long, Uneasy Wait Is Over: Parties, Protests And Solemn Silence Greet Brexit Enlarge this image toggle caption Alastair Grant/AP Alastair Grant/AP Updated at 6 p.m. Enlarge this image toggle caption Francisco Seco/AP Francisco Seco/AP Still, even as Brexit supporters gathered for parties in London and across the country, not everyone is cheering the prime minister's hard-won victory lap Friday — far from it, in fact. Enlarge this image toggle caption Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images Farther north, in Edinburgh, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon laid out her own objections Friday — and made the case why those objections warrant a second independence referendum for Scotland, roughly 5 1/2 years after voters decided to remain in the U.K. "We know that change is coming, but it does not have to be the change that Tories want to impose on Scotland. In Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Brexit day a "profound watershed moment" and promised good-faith negotiations going forward, while French President Emmanuel Macron, speaking in Paris, described the U.K.'s departure as an "alarm signal" that demands to be heard across the continent.