Mick Clifford: Brexit’s dream, 10 years on — boarded-up shops and unanswered questions

Ten years after Brexit, residents of Nelson in Lancashire talk to Mick Clifford about broken promises, economic decline, immigration and Britain's political future

Decline walks hand in hand with racial tension, which is where a political entrepreneur like Nigel Farage makes hay. 

Kath Blackhurst sums up in four words what Brexit means to her. 

“The money never came,” she says. “We were promised all this money that would be no longer going to Europe, the £400m for the NHS and the like. And it never came.”