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In the briefing room tonight, I want to try to understand why, three weeks ago, 52% of voters in the referendum

ignored all the dire warnings from academics, economists and business leaders and voted to leave

the European Union. Sometimes it's not quite enough to sit behind a table and invite the experts

to come to me. There'll be some of that later.

Sometimes you need to hear the way people talk and think.

So I went to Wakefield in West Yorkshire,

an area around a small city where over 65% of the electorate

voted to leave the EU.

I was hoping that we were going to get Great Britain back

and that we were going to be able to do the things

that us British people, people who live here,

can do without having the EU telling us

we must do this, we must do that.

That's Jennifer, Labour voter, retired shopworker,

mother of two, grandmother of seven, in a small semi, in a cul-de-sac opposite a council estate that she doesn't visit.

What did you feel you weren't having a say in that we would get back?

It's difficult to say, I'm not quite sure.

We very rarely go abroad, but a lot of our friends go abroad.

And they say, the EU's this, the EU's that.

They must do this in the EU.

You must do that in the EU.

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