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Today in Focus

What has Brexit done for Britain?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Brexit, Britain was promised, would allow the country to ‘take back control’ – of its economy, its borders and its land. But what has that really meant for people now living with its consequences?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:08.4

Today, it's been three years since the United Kingdom left the EU.

0:14.4

Where has Brexit left us?

0:15.9

It's excruciating to think back to the Brexit referendum of 2016. So I won't linger on it for too long.

0:37.1

There were furious debates.

0:38.3

Now this is a once in a lifetime chance.

0:40.8

Intense public campaigns.

0:42.6

Three, can you hear me at the back?

0:43.8

No!

0:45.0

And as Heather Stewart, then the Guardian's political editor remembers an agonising litany of promises.

0:51.9

So you remember that very controversial £350 million a week for the NHS on the side of the bus?

0:57.4

Huge sums of money.

0:58.9

Of huge sums of money.

1:00.4

Of £350 million a week.

1:02.8

And yes, let us take back control of our borders.

1:05.8

Ending uncontrolled migration from the EU.

1:08.6

Because I want a better deal for the people of this country.

1:13.8

And we would do lots of great trade deals with countries outside the EU,

1:18.0

which would give our companies our exporters lots of opportunities.

1:20.8

If we burst out of the shackles of Brussels, we would be able to begin immediately

1:26.2

with those long neglected free trade opportunities, which we can't do at the moment.

1:31.7

And then there was this broader sort of nebulous idea of taking back control.

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