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Wales Online
Wales Online
Politics
Will Hayward

Eight claims about Brexit which have proved totally untrue

In a calm, measured voice, the narrator of the Leave campaign's promotional video before the 2016 Brexit referendum made a series of simple, powerful promises. The only problem is, we now know they were just empty words.

Six-and-a-half years after the UK narrowly voted to leave the EU on June 23, 2016, and three years after the country finally left the union of the other 27 European states on January 30, 2020, we've looked back at the promises that were made during the campaign.

With polls showing that the number of people who regret the decision to leave the EU now significantly outnumbers supporters in all 40 Welsh constituencies, we have taken a video posted by campaign group Leave.EU and checked the claims they have made to see if they actually came to pass (spoilers - they didn't).

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