Ten years after the referendum, Brexit remains one of the most divisive events in our modern history.
For some, it has delivered economic stagnation, trade barriers and diminished global influence – but for others, it has restored democratic control and given Britain the freedom to chart its own course.
But has Brexit really been the unmitigated disaster its critics claim? Our writers – Ian Dunt, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Wallace and Julie Burchill – offer their perspectives.
Ian Dunt: It devastated our economy and nation
It has been almost exactly as bad as we expected it to be. The big economic organisations said in the run-up to the 2016 referendum that it would be a disaster, specified roughly quite how disastrous it was likely to be, and were proved correctly. The economic impact of the decision itself was not as bad as expected, but the economic impact of actually leaving the EU played out as per expectations
