A decade has passed since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union on June 23, 2016 — a result that polls at the time had not predicted. As Greek daily Ta Nea noted in a sweeping retrospective, the UK that voted for Brexit under David Cameron has since cycled through five prime ministers (and may soon say goodbye to a sixth).
The balance sheet is sobering. The British economy remains “wounded,” social inequalities have deepened, and the political landscape has fractured in ways few foresaw. The promise of a “liberated” Britain has collided with the complex realities of disentangling from the EU — a project that, ten years on, still lacks a clear destination.
