For the 48% that voted to stay in the EU, many of them Londoners, there are very mixed feelings toward leaving the bloc.
It's been more than three years since a slim majority of Brits — almost 52% — voted to leave the EU.For the 48.1% that voted to stay in the EU, there are mixed feelings toward leaving the bloc.
CNBC spoke to Londoners, a city that voted overwhelmingly in favor of remaining in the EU, about how they feel about "Brexit Day" and impending life outside of the European Union. "My mum voted to exit , as did a lot of the older generation, and it's caused a massive rift for all of us. I've given up talking about it now and we've been talking about it for three years and both sides are adamant that their view is right."Since the referendum in June 2016, the country has seen political turmoil and division not witnessed in recent years, as lawmakers have grappled with the unwieldy beast that is Brexit.
By that point, the British public were largely fed up with Parliament's shenanigans and Johnson's message to "get Brexit done" chimed with many voters, even among those who had traditionally never voted for the Conservative Party.WPA Pool The 80-seat Conservative majority in Parliament empowered Johnson to push his Brexit bill through the House of Commons in January with little resistance and it passed through the upper chamber of Parliament, the House of Lords, last week too.
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