As Brexit’s impact deepens, Independent readers question the true cost of leaving the EU - THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: Five years ...

Decades of deindustrialization, followed by years of public spending cuts and high immigration, made fertile ground for the argument that Brexit would let the U.K. “take back control” of its ...

This weekend marks five years since the UK finally managed to "take back control" and leave the European Union. The referendum vote to leave was on 23 June 2016. It took three and half years after ...

A lesson in unintended consequences In some ways, Brexit has not played out as either supporters or opponents anticipated. The COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine piled on more economic ...

Decades of deindustrialization, followed by years of public spending cuts and high immigration, made fertile ground for the argument that Brexit would let the U.K. “take back control” of its borders, ...

Five years on, even many of those who still champion Brexit, including Nigel Farage, concede that it has "failed" - so why are the main parties afraid to tell voters they got it wrong?