Ten years on: How the Brexit vote reshaped Britain
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The Economist
10d ago· 2 min readenNews
Summary
A brief retrospective on the 10-year anniversary of the Brexit vote, focusing on Sunderland as the first city to declare its Leave vote in 2016. The article highlights how Sunderland, a working-class area with a declining industrial past, voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU despite warnings about potential job losses at Nissan's local factory. The piece frames the vote as a symbol of left-behind Britain's desire to challenge global elites.
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· 2 pulledOver 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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