Five years on: How Brexit upended British politics and shocked the establishment

MPs reported unprecedented levels of threats and abuse during the Brexit period; 21 Conservative MPs were expelled from the party for voting against the government.

Five years after Britain's June 2016 referendum, the nation pauses to reckon with a democratic rupture that exposed a profound estrangement between governing elites and the working-class communities they believed they understood. What began as a dismissed prediction by a lone analyst became a years-long constitutional crisis — two Prime Ministers fallen, a Supreme Court summoned, MPs threatened and expelled — before an 80-seat election majority in December 2019 finally translated the people's verdict into law. The story of Brexit is, at its core, a story about who gets to define a nation, and

Five years on: How Brexit upended British politics and shocked the establishment

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