31st January 2020 marked the official exit of the UK from the European Union. But four years on, how are Britons feeling about the move? Was it success? How did you vote and would you still vote the same way today? We sent our camera crews out in cities across the UK to find out some of your thoughts.
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00:00 It's been four years since the UK left the EU.
00:05 Has Brexit been a success, would you say?
00:10 The only time we hear about Brexit now is if there isn't things on the shelves,
00:15 is if people can't get products, so things on the shelves again.
00:20 But the only time in the past few months I've heard people talk about Brexit is chargers,
00:25 my friends from different countries who also have really good jobs where they could be helping
00:30 now can't come back into the country and that's a real strain on resources.
00:35 Not just because of my friends, genuinely some of the people who now can't come and live here,
00:39 who lived here before, they would have been like an asset to the country,
00:44 but now they would have to do so much to come here.
00:46 The only time I ever hear anything to do with Brexit is really negative,
00:50 so I don't think it's been a success for anyone.
00:52 So I voted against Brexit anyway, so no I wouldn't vote differently.
00:57 Do I think it's been a success? No.
00:59 Do I think it's been the disaster predicted? Probably no.
01:02 But I think you just get on with it and make what it is now, it is what it is,
01:06 and you've just got to make the best of it.
01:08 So I voted to stay in the EU and I think it was a very rash move to make to come out of the EU.
01:13 We didn't need to come out, it was racially motivated, people like Anne Whittacombe pushed it,
01:17 and she's not a very nice woman.
01:19 So I'm very pro-EU, I know it's very political, but I'm pro-EU, pro-Brussels, pro-Europe, not Brexit.
01:27 Brexit's racist in my opinion.
01:29 Brexit's been an unmitigated failure because it's been designed to be a failure.
01:35 It was a weak government that has caused this.
01:40 So I voted to leave the European Union and I would vote twice to vote for the European Union today.
01:49 Well I think it's all false promises.
01:52 I think they said they're going to sort the country out.
01:56 It seems to be for more politicians that are voting, I think, to try and get the votes in.
02:01 As a scientist it's been devastating, half of our European colleagues left.
02:06 We don't get the same numbers of people coming over.
02:10 Pretty much all of my European colleagues left within the last five years.
02:14 It's been bad, and we've lost funding.
02:18 It's as simple as that. I don't think we're going to remain competitive.
02:21 My opinion on Brexit hasn't changed, to leave or remain, do you know what I mean?
02:26 But I think my opinion on the different, on Parliament, and the different Conservatives and Labour, that's definitely changed.
02:34 I think Conservatives, I used to be a big fan of the Conservatives,
02:40 and that has definitely changed in the past 12 to 18 months.
02:44 I think it's just lies after lies, especially when it comes to Brexit.
02:48 There's a lot that they say that, no, you kind of look back and go, well hang on a minute, you said that to get people on side,
02:54 and it's definitely not true.
02:56 I didn't vote for Brexit, no, I don't think it's been a success to, no.
03:01 No, I think it's given us more problems than we realised we were going to have.