If you vote leave, you will take control of a whole range of decision-making. Out of the 28 current member states, only two of them have an uptown out of the Euro - us and Denmark. The joyce of us leaving is that as we are not going to be part of the Euro, the more time we have to be apart from that. And that's to the question of what's more important: economic performance or democracy? I think it is the most precious gift which we can hand out on to the next generation.
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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