Ten years on: How Sunderland and the Brexit vote reshaped Britain
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The Economist
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Ten years after the 2016 Brexit referendum, the article examines how Sunderland — the first city to declare a Leave vote with over 60% support — became a symbol of left-behind Britain's desire to challenge global elites. Despite warnings from Nissan about potential factory closure, the working-class port city voted decisively to leave the EU, reflecting broader discontent in areas whose industrial glory days had faded.
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· 3 pulledAt 12.15am on June 24th 2016, Sunderland became the poster child for Brexit.
Over 60% of Sunderland's inhabitants wanted out, despite veiled warnings from Nissan that Brexit might cause it to close its car factory (a major local employer).
As a working-class area whose shipbuilding glory days were long gone, the port came to embody left-behind Britain's desire to give global elites a bloody nose.
In many small ways, and mostly for the worse
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