Published: January 14, 2019
Two-and-a-half years after referendum, there is little sign of sentiment changing in UK’s ‘Brexit capital’
As Theresa May swept on to a factory floor on the edge of Stoke, Patricia Clewlow admonished herself for what she was about to say. “I’ve voted every year since I was 18 because it’s right that I should,” said the 79-year-old. “Particularly for the brave women that won us the vote. But I honestly feel that if this goes by the board, I shan’t ever vote again. It’s naughty to feel like that but that’s how I feel.”
Clewlow was one of the 69.4% of voters in Stoke-on-Trent who backed leave in the 2016 EU referendum. Almost everyone Clewlow knows voted to leave. Their only regret is that it has not happened already.
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