Where’s Our Brexit Gone? This City Would Like to Know
People in the northern port of Hull savored the idea of leaving the EU. Now they’re not sure what’s going on.
This article is for subscribers only.
It was a regular Friday morning in the northern English city of Hull. Mothers passed each other in the street pushing buggies, pensioners lugged shopping bags and students clutched their takeout coffees.
This wasn’t meant to be like any other day, though. Britain was supposed to be leaving the European Union, at 11 p.m. to be precise, a cause to rejoice for many here. Indeed, with 67 percent backing Brexit in the 2016 referendum, Hull was one of two British cities that relished the prospect the most. Now people can hardly bring themselves to talk about it.