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Brexit, one year on: ‘Elites could face double backlash’

By Reuters
23 June 2017   |   10:29 am
A year on from the Brexit vote, Reuters interviews the man who successfully tapped into the disenfranchised with the official campaign to leave the EU- and asks where populism is now?

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