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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
James Tapper

‘We should be closer to Europe’: Brexit regrets simmer in leave-voting Boston

Voters in the town were the most hardcore supporters of Brexit, with 74.9% backing leave.
Voters in the town were the most hardcore supporters of Brexit, with 74.9% backing leave. Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer

The breeze of change is wheezing through Boston – although not nearly hard enough for most people here. Voters in the Lincolnshire market town were the most enthusiastic supporters of Brexit, with 74.9% backing leave in the 2016 EU referendum. Now even they are sceptical that Brexit will deliver the transformation they’re still waiting for seven years later.

As the Best in Britain poll in the Observer reveals on Sunday, in the Boston and Skegness constituency more than twice as many people (40%) now want closer links with the EU against just 19% who want relations to become even more distant.

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