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"The benefits of Brexit involve the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer."
Tom Swarbrick struggled to keep his composure after hearing from one man who voted for Brexit because he spotted a conspiracy in the stars of the EU flag.
And why none of them actually stack up.
The poll was carried out as part of a special episode of BBC Question Time.
At least 20% of Brexit supporters would vote differently if they were asked now, a poll of hundreds of people on BBC Question Time has found.
One said: “I don’t see any benefit from it all”, another added: “We haven’t started Brexit yet, when’s it going to start?”
Alastair Campbell, who will be appearing on the flagship BBC politics show in Clacton-on-Sea, said it is "quite something" that the government won't be represented in front of an audience made entirely of Leave voters.
The BBC has responded to complaints after some viewers blasted an ‘all-Brexiter audience’ in an upcoming Question Time special.
The episode which will occur on June 22, the eve of the anniversary of the Brexit vote. It will take place in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex and the audience will be comprised exclusively of Leave voters.
A Question Time Brexit special has prompted fury after Fiona Bruce announced that the programme would feature only Leave voters in the audience.
"Yes it is," one member of the audience shouts back at Rachel Maclean as she says leaving the EU has "nothing to do" with the downturn. / A Conservative minister has faced ridicule after stating Brexit has “nothing to do” with the UK’s economic troubles.
A Brexit voter from Sunderland has explained to a government minister why he would not back leaving the EU now – arguing it has “been a complete mess from the beginning”.
The director of a wine merchant has eviscerated Jacob Rees Mogg on BBC Question Time, branding complications in importing and exporting wine due to Brexit red tape as a “joke”.
“We need to export to our biggest and most obvious market which is 20 miles across the Channel” / This #bbcqt audience member who trades with European countries says his business is “hanging in there”, claiming Brexit is a “disaster for our economy”.
"It's about time we get this out in the open because Brexit is a disaster."
A BBC Question Time audience member shut down a Tory minister who tried to dismiss the sustained impact of Brexit as “something that happened six years ago”. / "Brexit is a disaster for our economy."
"So many MPs have changed their minds about policies, is there a possibility that the country has changed it's mind about Brexit?"
An audience member surprised BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce on Thursday evening when they revealed they did vote for Brexit – and said Britain was now facing the dire consequences of leaving the EU.
THE BBC has come under fire after a Question Time audience member said the Royal Navy’s only mistake in the Jersey fishing row was “not sinking the ships”.