Why Britain voted for Brexit: the short and long answers
There is a very simple answer to the question of why Britain voted for Brexit: Brexit promised all things to all people. It could be whatever people wanted it to be, from an opportunity t...
Victoria Bateman lecturer and fellow in economics at Gonville and Caius College. She writes regular economic commentary for Bloomberg View and Capx, is a Fellow of the Legatum Institute, London, and is author of the book “Markets and Growth in Early Modern Europe” (2012). This is a shortened version of a speech delivered during Brexit Week, at Cambridge University, in conjunction with UK in a Changing Europe.