No other country in Europe suffers, shall I say, the popularity as a country to be great to have Britain does. So while it's true that Nick Cleggs said that some of these skilled workers have filled jobs, vacancies that the natives would not have filled,. That is absolutely brilliant. The problem is the millions of others who are not skilled who come here and is it not true that there must be a right to a sovereign state to introduce something like an Australian quota system? Thank you. We're only going to be able to hear it two more in.
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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