Ten years after the Brexit vote: Sunderland and the legacy of a divided Britain
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The Economist
Summary
A retrospective on the 10-year anniversary of the Brexit vote, focusing on Sunderland as the first city to declare its Leave vote. The article examines how the port city, a working-class area with a faded industrial past, voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU despite warnings about potential job losses at Nissan's local factory. The piece frames Sunderland as emblematic of "left-behind Britain's" desire to challenge global elites.
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· 3 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.
At 12.15am on June 24th 2016, Sunderland became the poster child for Brexit.
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