How Brexit changed us: Brexit was a failed national conversation

Opinions about Europe, history and sovereignty quickly became treated as though they were existential conditions not viewpoints.

by Lyndsey Stonebridge for the The New Statesman

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‘About five weeks before the referendum I was having dinner with some old friends. Halfway through, one surprised the rest of us by announcing he would be voting Leave. Although I thought, and still think, that Brexit was a reckless piece of foolishness, questions about sovereignty, citizenship, the nature of political power and who does and doesn’t have it are always interesting. Anybody who had paid attention to the deep inequalities that had opened up in the UK since 2009 could see such questions were long overdue. I wanted to hear his reasoning...’

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