The north east reacts to the government announcing closer ties to the EU

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The government says it wants to work more closely with Europe again. We ask if people in the north east feel that’s betraying Brexit and what people voted for, and why?

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00:00Personally, I'm in favour of the strengthening ties with Europe.

00:04Yes, the vote was for to leave, but I think it was a close margin.

00:10And I think a lot of people didn't actually understand what Brexit would then mean

00:13in terms of things like passport control and other such things.

00:17So I think if you were to hold that vote again, I think people, the country would vote differently.

00:22I think they should have close relations with as many trade countries as they can.

00:26Well, it shouldn't be exclusively Europe. It shouldn't be in favour of any other countries.

00:31It should be all over the world, really, to try and...

00:34Commonwealth partners, maybe Australia, Canada, just whoever we can deal with.

00:38We should be able to deal with France, Italy, Germany, without having exclusive rights for them

00:43or they're getting particularly favourable.

00:46I think the implications of what happened after Brexit with relationships in Europe

00:51wasn't accounted for when people were voting for it.

00:54So when it did happen, they were like, what is going on?

00:58So now they're trying to get back to that.

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