Post-Brexit Britain 2021: Who do we think we are?
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The Times
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🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
It's been over a year since the UK officially left the EU on the 31st of January 2020 in a vote which was fuelled by decades of British Euroscepticism. With terms like 'remainer' and 'Brexiteer' now holding less significance, what are the new identities which have emerged for all of us?
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Guest:
-Tanja Borzel, Professor of political science at The Free University of Berlin
-Sunder Katwala, Director of British Future.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
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| 0:35.3 | It's half a decade since Britain voted to leave the European Union |
| 0:39.8 | over a year since we did, two months since we signed that deal. |
| 0:45.5 | But now, in this post-Brexit era, who do we think we are? |
| 0:51.4 | Two years later, nine out of ten of us had an identity |
| 0:55.6 | as a remainder or a lever that we probably didn't have |
| 0:59.6 | three weeks before the vote. |
| 1:01.3 | Some of us want to be something else altogether. |
| 1:04.5 | In 2019, the number of Britons receiving German citizenship jumped |
| 1:08.5 | two thousand three hundred percent compared to 2015. |
| 1:12.9 | Half the people I know suddenly seem to be Irish or French. |
| 1:16.7 | But do the Europeans want us anymore? |
| 1:19.3 | I mean, and everybody was fed up and said if they were just to leave, right, |
| 1:23.7 | then if they don't want it, let's let them go. |
| 1:26.0 | We'll be hearing from voices in Britain and across the continent. |
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