In 2016 we spoke to jubilant leave campaigners featured on Daily Mail’s front page. How do they feel now?
The day after the EU referendum result, on Saturday 25 June 2016, the Daily Mail’s front page featured a photograph of jubilant Brexit supporters in Peterborough, under the headline “Take a bow Britain”. The paper celebrated “the day the quiet people of Britain rose up against an arrogant, out-of-touch political class and a contemptuous Brussels elite”.
Speaking to the Guardian a week after the vote, some of those in the photograph criticised David Cameron for his decision to quit as prime minister, expressed concern at racist attacks in the wake of the poll, and wondered whether anyone actually had a plan. On the eve of the UK’s departure from the EU three and a half years later, we asked for their reflections on one of the most turbulent periods in British political history.