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Feb 2021
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Post-Brexit Britain 2021: Who do we thin...

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It's been over a year since the UK officially left the EU on the 31st of January 2020 in a vote which was fuelled by decades of British Euroscepticism. With terms like 'remainer' and 'Brexiteer' now holding less significance, what are the new identities which have emerged for all of us?


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Guest: 

-Tanja Borzel, Professor of political science at The Free University of Berlin

-Sunder Katwala, Director of British Future.


Host: David Aaronovitch.


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