{"id":655350,"date":"2026-06-24T06:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655350\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:29:07","slug":"brexit-10-years-on-has-anyone-changed-their-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/655350\/","title":{"rendered":"Brexit 10 years on – has anyone changed their mind?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a vote which split the country, towns and even families more or less down the middle.<\/p>\n

Ten years ago I spent months talking to people about the EU Referendum, billed by then Prime Minister David Cameron as a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to have a say on the UK’s relationship with our nearest neighbours.<\/p>\n

On 24 June 2016, people in the UK woke up to learn the nation had voted to leave the EU by 51.9% to 48.1%.<\/p>\n

In our region, the results were broadly similar but some areas showed a stronger desire to stay or go than others.<\/p>\n

In Doncaster, voters said they wanted to leave the European Union, with 69% backing Brexit<\/a>. In York 58% of voters backed the Remain campaign.<\/p>\n

A decade on, I’ve been out in those areas asking people how they feel now.<\/p>\n

Doncaster’s high street is buzzing with shoppers, market stall holders and people enjoying the sunshine.<\/p>\n

I meet retired couple Ann and Ian Fraser – during our conversation it turns out the pair voted in opposite ways.<\/p>\n

Ann voted Remain and believes the country is “worse off” as a result of the Leave vote.<\/p>\n

She said “I don’t think we’ve gained a great deal, apart from if you’re travelling abroad a lot.”<\/p>\n

Husband Ian backed Leave because he “didn’t like the way the country was being run”.<\/p>\n

“We weren’t run by England at all. We were run by whatever was happening in Germany, France or anywhere else,” he explained.<\/p>\n

“I still think that we’re better off out of it than we were in it, because I think we can talk for ourselves instead of somebody else doing it for us.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think we’ve realised our potential, it’s done us no harm to leave.”<\/p>\n

Ann is not sure how she would vote today and says she can see “pros and cons” to both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a vote which split the country, towns and even families more or less down the middle.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-655350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}