UK marks 10 years since the Brexit referendum – Europe live

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UK marks 10 years since the Brexit referendum – Europe live

Key events Brexit bellwether constituencies revisited 10 years on If you want to know how people on the ground, in bellwether constituencies, feel about Brexit ten years on, we have something for …

Key events Brexit bellwether constituencies revisited 10 years on If you want to know how people on the ground, in bellwether constituencies, feel about Brexit ten years on, we have something for you. But let me just say: yeah, they think exactly what you think they think. David Milne voted leave to try to save the UK fishing industry – to have more say over what happened in our waters. ‘We was promised that, but that hasn’t happened,’ he says. Composite: Guardian Design “Absolute nightmare, shambles, and still is to this day,” says Tony Rutherford, a decade after he voted leave to save the British fishing industry. In May 2016, David Milne, the chair of the Scottish White Fish Producers Association, leaned against an EU funding sign on the quayside of Fraserburgh harbour and said he hoped Brexit would allow his industry to “manage our own destiny”, but he now feels their livelihoods were “bartered away”. For Milne, “control” was the main appeal of Brexit. double quotation mark We are bitter about it because we haven’t gained any. Czechia's Pavel hits back at 'unprecedented' decision to exclude him from Nato summit As expected, Czech president Petr Pavel has filed a complaint against the government’s decision to exclude him from the Czech delegation for next month’s Nato summit in Ankara. …

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