The surprise vote in Britain highlighted numerous fractures within British society, in particular between old and young voters. As Mediapart English's deputy editor Michael Streeter reports, the referendum also persuaded many disgruntled and impoverished working class voters to vote for the first time in years – and punish the Establishment elites.
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