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“Regarding Nick Inman’s request in October’s Connexion for people who are happier after Brexit: well, my husband and I, both of whom voted for Brexit, are no less happier than when we arrived in France in 2003.

“We voted for Brexit because we were under the impression that the UK would be able to control immigration and would regain sovereignty. That was a mistake and it did not work. However, since then, as far as we are concerned, life here is just as good as the day we arrived. 

“The only people who do not like Brexit are the moaners who did not get their own way. They were so convinced they knew best that many did not even bother to vote.
June Shute, by email.”

In short, then: June voted for Brexit so Britain could control immigration and regain sovereignty, both of which she admits it has failed to deliver. She sees no other ill-effects of Brexit, but that is because she lives in France, and not the UK – an opportunity that her vote has helped to deny to millions of others. And anyone who complains about the lack of logic in the above is just a moaner.

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He said that in the meantime it was essential for the UK’s productivity and growth to reduce the damaging impact of the Brexit deal struck by Boris Johnson “as best we possibly can”.

NHS would be hit by 'significant' costs if UK loses EU data status, warn Lords As another government yet again seeks to reform UK GDPR, legislators say data must continue to flow

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Exclusive: Starmer urged to reverse the damage done by Brexit by pursuing closer ties with Europe after vast costs of leaving bloc revealed

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LONDON — British voters head to the polls Thursday for their first general election outside the European Union. But in so many ways, the Brexit dream has already died.

All the key Vote Leave characters have left the stage. Five years after winning a landslide election Boris Johnson is out of parliament, making millions from speeches and newspaper columns. Michael Gove has quit politics rather than suffer life in opposition. Dominic Cummings spends his time writing blogs about Dostoevsky, TikTok and the CIA.

As the architects of Britain’s departure from the EU contemplate a decade out of power, the country they envisaged during the 2016 referendum campaign looks further away than ever.

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Checks on food arriving at Dover will be carried out on the outskirts of Ashford When checks on food entering the UK from the EU begin on Tuesday, lorries will have to drive 22 miles from Dover to border control posts at Sevington on the outskirts of Ashford. Anyone found to be carrying unsafe or contaminated food could be asked to turn around and drive back again. The government has not explained how lorries will be monitored between the port and its control post, or how it will ensure goods that have been identified as unsafe leave the country.

Thanks, Brexit.

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Drop in goods imports and exports attributed to Brexit by economists