Talking Heads: A year on from Brexit - have advisers' views changed?

Three advisers have their say…

Hannah Godfrey
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It has been exactly a year since Britons cast their vote in the EU referendum. It's been a rollercoaster of a year politically, so are advisers still happy with their vote? We asked three...

The UK voted to leave the European Union by a margin of 1.2 million votes on 23 June 2016. Since then, politicians have debated the merits of a ‘soft Brexit', a ‘hard Brexit' and even a ‘red, white and blue' Brexit, all without providing much substance or guarantees of any kind. In June, the UK faced the first general election since the Brexit vote. The election was called by the Conservatives in an attempt to give Prime Minister Theresa May a greater majority in the house of commons to "strengthen her hand" in the Brexit negotiations. However, the election took an unexpected turn and...

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