There are people around who have microphones with them. Let's see if you hands go up. If I'm hoping people with paddles, a little sign there. Could you pass the microphone to the woman there just three or so long and we'll go to first. And then we should have somebody up here. We continually discuss immigrants in the context of them being another as though we could never be them ourselves. But many British citizens want to and choose to emigrate themselves. Won't this be far more difficult for us if we do choose to leave the EU?
This week marked the three year anniversary of Brexit, the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. On this episode of The Sunday Debate we’re revisiting what some would call a simpler time, pre-Brexit Britain. In May 2016, a month before the referendum, Intelligence Squared staged The Great Brexit Debate. Our chair for the debate was Jonathan Freedland, Guardian columnist, author and broadcaster, and he was joined by a panel of six influential voices including Nick Clegg and Gisela Stuart.
Now we’re on the other side of this once in a generation vote, were the predictions correct? Did the fears or hopes come into fruition?
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