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What's Next for Britain and the EU After Brexit?
What's next for Britain, now that it has voted to leave the European Union?
Listeners from the UK and other parts of Europe call in to share their thoughts.
And Steven Erlanger, the London bureau chief for The New York Times, discusses what might happen as a result of the vote.
Was Brexit a generational vote? Very much so, said Erlanger. About 75% of those under 24 years old voted to remain in the EU, and 70% of those over 55 voted to leave. There was also a major differential in terms of city dwellers versus country dwellers and between the highly educated and the less educated, he said.
@BrianLehrer young people didn't turn out in the UK and had their futures decided by older generations, I hope younger Americans notice this
— Kat Mohr (@rinjvonscoot) June 24, 2016Moving piece by @BarbaraSurk, a Slovenian in Brussels, on how nations and empires fall apart, & why Europe matters.https://t.co/A0rIfVQOw6
— Steven Erlanger (@StevenErlanger) June 23, 2016@BrianLehrer Friends of mine in Bradford all disappointed in result. Felt that people voted for a Trump-esque slogan--"Take Britain Back"
— Daniel Nosonowitz (@nosonowitz_d) June 24, 2016Caller on Brian Lehrer show said this was "the biggest British foreign policy blunder since Neville Chamberlain in Munich." SICK BURN
— Lara Elena Donnelly (@larazontally) June 24, 2016@BrianLehrer I went to bed a European and woke up shocked and so totally disappointed to no longer be.
— Eddie Brannan (@eddiebrannan) June 24, 2016