If one country cannot train its own youngsters and buy its skills shortages out of taking other people's young people, then I think I have a problem. A whole generation of young people in Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal had to leave their own countries because it was the only way they could get a job. People have travelled before and they will go on travelling. It's about actually having the right to work elsewhere. There are about 1.2 million Brits living, working, studying or retired abroad. Nick Clegg said freedom movement is wonderful if you're talking about movement between economically comparable countries when there was parity fine. Now that there is this huge gap between, say, Romania and
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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