Keep qualms and carry on: a decade after Brexit

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blau.

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  Today, we're devoting our show to the moment 10 years ago that changed Britain.

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  The total number of votes cast in favor of Remain was 16,141,241.

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  The total number of votes cast in favor of Leave was 17,410,742.

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  This means that the UK has voted to leave the European Union.

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  In the referendum of June the 23rd, 2016, Britons voted for Brexit by 52% to 48%.

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  Those who campaigned to leave the European Union promised a future free of external interference,

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  ripe with opportunity.

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  Those who wanted Britain to stay part of the EU, including us here at The Economist,

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  warned of disastrous economic damage.

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  10 years on, how have those predictions fared?

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  And with the impact still very much being felt, and Britain about to get a new prime minister,

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  where does the country go from here?

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  Helping me answer those questions is Daniel Franklin, one of our senior editors.

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  Hello, Daniel.

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  Hello, Rosie.

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  Daniel, it's already been a tumultuous week in British politics.

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  Does the fact that we're about to get our seventh prime minister in a decade

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