‘We did regain control’: The Brexit voters with no regrets 10 years on
Key takeaways
- The UK may have squandered the freedoms it won, but leaving the EU was the right decision, say pro-Brexit Britons.
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- “The arguments for Brexit now are largely the same as they were then: sovereignty, democracy and taking back control,” University of Cambridge professor and Brexit supporter Robert Tombs told Al Jazeera.
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The UK may have squandered the freedoms it won, but leaving the EU was the right decision, say pro-Brexit Britons.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo. A slim majority of Britons voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union in June 2016 [Hayoung Jeon/EPA]By Simon Speakman Cordall Published On 25 Jun 202625 Jun 2026Despite polls showing that most Britons regret leaving the European Union, many others believe the case for quitting the bloc still holds.
“The arguments for Brexit now are largely the same as they were then: sovereignty, democracy and taking back control,” University of Cambridge professor and Brexit supporter Robert Tombs told Al Jazeera.