Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said that whoever wins Istanbul wins Turkey.

So now that the candidate from his Justice and Development Party has lost the mayoral

election twice, Mr. Erdogan no longer seems quite so invincible.

And in much of the world, reaching emergency services is as simple as calling one number.

In Kenya's capital, Nairobi, there are more than 50 and no central system controlling them.

A response might take hours. Now a new service dubbed Uber for ambulances is radically simplifying matters and saving lives.

But first, three years ago today, Britain woke up to the results of the referendum on leaving the European Union.

The sun has risen on an independent United Kingdom.

The British people have made a very clear decision to take a different path.

The markets were betting on a remain victory. They got it wrong and they paid the price.

My country is UF as much as Britain and my country has been taken off me on a 2% majority.

Many people, including here at the Economist, were surprised.

So I wrote two different articles, one assuming that the referendum had been a no, a remain vote,

and another one that I never thought would be published, saying that Britain had gone mad and voted leave.

Tom Wainwright is our long-suffering Britain editor.

I'm sure if that's what happened, and it's been my life ever since, really.

Before that fateful referendum, only one in 10 Brits considered Europe an important issue.

Now Brexit has become a sort of national obsession.

Take for instance Steve Bray. He lived in South Wales and before Brexit wasn't exactly an activist.

I actually just voted for whichever party I felt could do the best. I was never loyal to any particular party.

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