It’s three years since the UK officially left the EU. For many of those who voted to leave in the 2016 referendum, it was in answer to a promise to take back control – of funding, over farming, over immigration and trade. But have those promises been kept?
Lisa O’Carroll, the Guardian’s Brexit correspondent, and Heather Stewart, a Guardian special correspondent, tell Nosheen Iqbal what they have learned from travelling the country to build up a picture of Brexit’s impact. From Welsh sheep farmers to tea exporters in Reading, they explain how changes in bureaucracy and subsidies have affected people’s livelihoods – and how a lack of EU workers has made recruiting more difficult.
