Mark Hennessy
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first heard May 2026
last heard 26 Jun
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The legacy is exactly as you described.
It's the fact that we are about to embark on our seventh British prime minister.
That is a direct consequence of Brexit, the way in which it fractured the political system because it produced an outcome that could not be implemented without destroying effectively the UK's economy.
They ended up with
a botched version of it.
So you have people who believe that it was always a stupid idea that was implemented stupidly to people who believe that it was a brilliant idea that was implemented by people who didn't wish to vindicate the opinions of the majority of British voters.
And that sort of chasm is there and shows absolutely no signs
even 10 years on, of changing because you have a situation where opinion polls in the UK are now saying that a majority would favour Remain.
But when you ask them as to what a return to the European Union might look like, you see
So there's no British government, be it one led by Keir Starmer or one led by Andy Burnham, that's actually going to rerun the referendum and put a proposition to the British people.
So this issue is going to poison politics for years to come.
No, there is.
But the point is that Brexit is an outcome.
You have a situation.
Why did people vote for Brexit?
A majority or a certain percentage voted because they hated the flag and the anthem and all things EU.
But a majority of people who voted for Brexit are perfectly decent people who felt...
that they had not got a stake in the British economy, that they were angry about being ignored by metropolitan elites, that the economy was leading them to a succession of poorly paid jobs, etc., etc., that they had no financial hold and place in a way that they would have thought that their parents would have enjoyed in the 60s and 70s and earlier, no matter what the faults of the British economy were back then.
So you had that level of anger.
And none of those things have changed.
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