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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Ethan Davies

Seven years on from the day Britain decided its fate, people across Greater Manchester are still divided

Seven years ago today, voters across Greater Manchester went to the polls with two options in front of them.

Leave or remain. It was a very simple choice — for a very complicated question.

The lead up to the Brexit referendum led to the exposure of huge divisions within the UK, and many hoped that the thorny issue of our membership of the European Union could be resolved, once and for all, with the in-out ballot.

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