Anti-Brexit campaigners wave Union and European Union flags outside the Houses of Parliament, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday January 28, 2019. As the Prime Minister faced another Commons showdown over her EU withdrawal agenda on
Five years ago the Vote Leave campaign took a victory in Wiltshire after securing 52.4 per cent of the county vote – mirroring the UK figures.
Pre-Covid the Olympiad in Chippenham would have still been bustling at 5am with people on both sides of the vote clamouring to hear whether or not Wiltshire wanted to bid au revoir to the EU.
It was declared that Brexiteers secured 151,637 votes compared to the Remain campaign’s 137,258 in Wiltshire.
What we want to ask our readers is if you would vote the same way today as you did in the Brexit referendum five years ago?
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