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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alicja Hagopian and Kate Devlin

The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on

It has been five years since Brexit “got done” – and voters and politicians alike are still counting the cost.

Britons voted to leave the European Union by 52 per cent to 48 per cent in 2016, in a rare referendum that triggered the resignation of prime minister David Cameron. The United Kingdom then officially withdrew from the European Union on 31 January 2020, followed by a transition period that lasted until January 2021.

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