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May's Brexit withdrawal deal delivers exactly what UK voted for in 2016

The great irony of Theresa May's current predicament is that only she, on the government benches, really seems to grasp this basic political reality

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UK Prime Minister Theresa May

Craig Berry | The Conversation
Forgive me, I may have missed something. There has of course been a lot to take in over the last few days. But, despite what the latest former Brexit secretary believes, it seems to me that the Brexit withdrawal agreement delivers almost exactly what the UK voted for in June 2016.

The reasons 17.4m people voted to leave the EU were multiple, complex and, in part, contradictory. But it is beyond doubt that a desire to control immigration was the most important reason. The evidence in this regard is