2023年6月15日
Mark O’Neill
EJ Insight
"Brexit has failed"
"Brexit has failed" – this was the astonishing admission last month of Nigel Farage, former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and the man most responsible for persuading the British people to leave the European Union in a referendum in June 2016.
In the British general election in 2015, UKIP secured 12.6 per cent of the popular vote, making it the third party. This persuaded then Prime Minister David Cameron to call the referendum, in an attempt to end the debate over leaving the EU. Britain is a parliamentary democracy -- Cameron was not required to call a referendum.
To Cameron’s great surprise, the British people voted 51.9 per cent to leave. Humiliated, he resigned as Prime Minister and left public life. ...
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