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To the Point

Britain Votes to Leave the European Union

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Britain’s historic vote to leave the European Union has already toppled Prime Minister David Cameron, rattled global markets and sent the pound sterling to its lowest point in 3 decades. And today is just Day One of the Brexit’s reverberations.

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0:30.6

From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

0:39.1

Britain makes one hell of an exit.

0:44.4

I'm Barbara Bogave, sitting in for Warren Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

0:49.5

Britain's historic vote to leave the European Union has already toppled Prime Minister David Cameron,

0:55.1

rattled global markets, and sent the pound sterling to its lowest point in three decades.

1:00.2

And today is just day one of the Brexit's reverberations. It's a shocking end to a bitter

1:05.9

campaign to decide the future of the country which once played a guiding role in the EU.

1:11.1

But is this just the first of many exits?

1:13.6

Is the Leave Movement's populist success story a sign of things to come on this side of the pond?

1:19.0

We'll start in London and follow the ripples from Brussels to Middle America.

1:23.4

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2:03.8

Back with To the Point, I'm Barbara Bogave and for Warren Alney.

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