A pro-Brexit activist demonstrates outside the Houses of Parliament in London on May 29, 2019.Glyn Kirk/AFP via Getty Images

The Brexit referendum: 10 years on – POLITICO

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LONDON — 10 years (and six prime ministers) ago, Britain was on the brink of deciding whether to leave the European Union.

POLITICO’s Westminster Insider podcast went back to the people who lived through that campaign up close for a special episode.

It revealed that much of British politics today — the targeted digital campaigning, the collapsing party loyalties, the distrust of institutions  — was there in embryonic form during the Brexit referendum.