disUnited Kingdom: Wrexham, Wales
Bethan Kilfoil travels home to Wales to ask why a country that is such a big beneficiary of EU funding voted for Brexit.
The people of Wales received hundreds of millions in EU grants to regenerate areas depressed by de-industrialisation. Yet Wales, like England, voted to leave the EU. In many cases, the areas voting most strongly for leave were those receiving the most EU money.
Bethan Kilfoil, a former BBC Wales correspondent in Brussels, and now a resident in Ireland, travels home to North Wales to find out why people voted the way they did. She explores what Brexit may mean for Wales in the future, and what the differences in patterns of voting between Welsh and English speaking areas tell us.
(Photo: The Union Jack flag shattered and broken. Credit: Shutterstock)
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