0:00:02 > 0:00:04Hello and welcome to Newick-on-Trent and a new sdries
0:00:04 > 0:00:07of Inside Out, East Midlands.
0:00:07 > 0:00:11I am Lukwesa Bura and here is what is coming up in our special
0:00:11 > 0:00:13Brexit programme tonight.
0:00:13 > 0:00:17It is more than two months since the vote to leave the EU
0:00:17 > 0:00:19and Peter Hitchens has been back to the town where three
0:00:19 > 0:00:21quarters voted out.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23But has anything changed as a result?
0:00:23 > 0:00:25Is anybody happier?
0:00:25 > 0:00:28Is anything really better?
0:00:28 > 0:00:31Simon Hare wants to know about jobs in the East Midlands car industry.
0:00:31 > 0:00:35We'll Brexit put the brakes on?
0:00:35 > 0:00:38I think the car industry is one of those industries that is most
0:00:38 > 0:00:44exposed to the risks around Brexit.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47And a walk down the country's most cosmopolitan street.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51What do they think of the vote on Leicester's Narborough Road?
0:00:51 > 0:00:55If this was made a polling station, people would have voted rem`in.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58With stories that matter closer to home, this is Inside Out
0:00:58 > 0:01:08for the East Midlands. First this evening,
0:01:11 > 0:01:13since the referendum, journalists from all over the world
0:01:13 > 0:01:20have been descending on one particular town in Lincolnshire
0:01:20 > 0:01:23They all want to see the pl`ce where one in eight people
0:01:23 > 0:01:25is an Eastern European migr`nt and the out of four people
0:01:25 > 0:01:27voted to leave the EU.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30The highest pro-Brexit vote in the country.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32But Peter Hitchens, columnist for the Mail On Sunday, was actually
0:01:32 > 0:01:34in Barston five years ago.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37At the time he caused controversy when he identified what he
0:01:37 > 0:01:41called a quiet seething resentment in the town.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44After the vote we asked Petdr to return to find out how
0:01:44 > 0:01:47people are feeling now.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52Who'd have thought that sledp Barston would have registerdd
0:01:52 > 0:01:57the strongest anti-EU vote in the country?
0:01:57 > 0:01:58I would.
0:01:58 > 0:02:01I visited this handsome old town five years ago
0:02:01 > 0:02:04for the Mail On Sunday to fhnd it transformed by mass migration
0:02:04 > 0:02:06from Eastern Europe, which nobody had asked
0:02:06 > 0:02:09for or expected.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11Some people were annoyed when I pointed this out.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15But in their quiet English way, people were upset.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Now they have taken the chance to show it.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19But has anything changed as a result?
0:02:19 > 0:02:21Is anybody happier?
0:02:21 > 0:02:25Is anything really better?
0:02:25 > 0:02:26The firment following my newspaper article drew some
0:02:26 > 0:02:28people into politics.
0:02:28 > 0:02:34Since I last met Bob he has become a counsellor.
0:02:34 > 0:02:37Barston was over 75% for le`ving out it is because people are absolutely
0:02:37 > 0:02:40sick to death of this uncontrolled immigration and light of control
0:02:40 > 0:02:44of the Borders and free movement of people.
0:02:44 > 0:02:45But nothing has happened.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47No, nothing has happened, and the frustration
0:02:47 > 0:02:52is starting to bubble.
0:02:52 > 0:02:54Could it be that the problels of Bartson and indeed England go
0:02:54 > 0:02:58deeper than the problem of mass immigration?
0:02:58 > 0:03:01Why is it for instance that British people have been so unwilling
0:03:01 > 0:03:09to do the work that these migrants undoubtedly do?
0:03:09 > 0:03:11They always used to, Peter, there was never an issue.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Peter would travel in as we know from Sheffield and Nottingh`m,
0:03:14 > 0:03:15there is other parts of the country.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19They would do the job and they would go home and xou have
0:03:19 > 0:03:21literally in this town thousands and thousands of Eastern
0:03:21 > 0:03:22European is coming in.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24It is far too many into short a time.
0:03:24 > 0:03:27And it has completely unbal`nced the whole social structure.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31Some of the Poles and Lithu`nians I spoke to five years ago Britain
0:03:31 > 0:03:36treat that the British would not do the jobs they had taken.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38At least 10,000 migrants were in Barston at the last census
0:03:38 > 0:03:41and most of them are still working hard and long on Lincolnshire's
0:03:41 > 0:03:47thriving farms.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50Why can't you get British pdople to do the work that needs
0:03:50 > 0:03:52to be done on your farm?
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Anyone can come and do this work, the work is available,
0:03:54 > 0:03:56it is organised by licensed agencies.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59Anyone can apply.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01In this area in Lincolnshird there is not huge unemployment locally,
0:04:01 > 0:04:07people are finding work doing other things.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09And you had people coming in from Sheffield.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11We did.
0:04:11 > 0:04:13That was a direct impact of Sheffield's steel industry
0:04:13 > 0:04:14collapsing, and those peopld at the time travelled
0:04:15 > 0:04:24to Lincolnshire to get the work
0:04:24 > 0:04:27They hit retirement and stop coming and coincidentally in 2004
0:04:27 > 0:04:29the movement of the borders in Europe allowed us
0:04:29 > 0:04:31to access labour from abroad.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33A quarter of the UK's veget`bles are produced in Lincolnshird,
0:04:33 > 0:04:35among many other crops, Julian grows celeriac
0:04:35 > 0:04:41for the country's biggest supermarkets.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43We can't operate as a busindss without migrant labour.
0:04:43 > 0:04:44Absolutely.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47For us I think we would havd to give up vegetable production almost
0:04:47 > 0:04:49overnight and revert back to basic arable farming.
0:04:49 > 0:04:50Would that destroy you?
0:04:50 > 0:04:54We would survive, we would survive as farmers, but it would not be good
0:04:54 > 0:04:57news for our full-time staff that it is something that I hope
0:04:57 > 0:05:00will never happen.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03All these new workers need homes, for many that used to mean caravan
0:05:03 > 0:05:05parks and grim multi-occupidd all houses like this one.
0:05:05 > 0:05:13How many people living in a room like this?
0:05:13 > 0:05:15There could be up to three, sometimes four.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17In a room of this size?
0:05:17 > 0:05:18Yeah.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22Absolutely.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23And, obviously...
0:05:23 > 0:05:25So a house of this size, perhaps 20...
0:05:25 > 0:05:2620 people, absolutely.
0:05:26 > 0:05:27That still goes on, doesn't it?
0:05:27 > 0:05:31It has not stopped.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33I have got to say, really, it is very rare.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35Outside investors have spotted a market.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Dismal places of this sort will be smartened up,
0:05:37 > 0:05:38and the rents sharply raised.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41So what are you paying now if you come here
0:05:41 > 0:05:42from Poland or Lithuania?
0:05:42 > 0:05:43It is actually very reasonable.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47It is ?80 for a single room.
0:05:47 > 0:05:48?80 per week?
0:05:48 > 0:05:49?80 per week.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52I think bartson is a great place, I really like the town,
0:05:52 > 0:05:55and I think it is a vibrant place and it is a lot better
0:05:55 > 0:05:56for the influx...
0:05:56 > 0:05:57Are you a Barstonian yourself?
0:05:57 > 0:05:59I have lived here all my life.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01It was a very quiet, sleepy town.
0:06:01 > 0:06:02You are right.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05But it is vibrant now, we have all of the shops.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Vibrant is one of those words that people use, isn't it?
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Some people don't want it to be vibrant.
0:06:10 > 0:06:11Absolutely.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14And I am not saying we haven't got problems, we have problems like most
0:06:14 > 0:06:15cities, it is a lot to...
0:06:15 > 0:06:18To get a doctor you have two weeks, to get some basic services,
0:06:18 > 0:06:21they are stressed in Barston, but like the housing it is hmproving
0:06:21 > 0:06:26and I think Barston has a bright future.
0:06:26 > 0:06:28But bright for whom?
0:06:28 > 0:06:30Money is not everything, people have to get on with dach
0:06:30 > 0:06:34other, not easy with such different cultures.
0:06:34 > 0:06:35Here on West Street, they call it East Street,
0:06:35 > 0:06:38it feels as though two nations are living side-by-side.
0:06:38 > 0:06:43Not speaking much.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45Things are civil enough, for this young Lithuanian
0:06:45 > 0:06:49who arrived ten years ago to want to stay.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51It was a welcoming environmdnt.
0:06:51 > 0:06:58People were kind to all of us at that time.
0:06:58 > 0:06:59You mean the local people?
0:06:59 > 0:07:00The local people where, yes.
0:07:00 > 0:07:05In support of, and patient `s well.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09Did anything change at all in the mood of Barston
0:07:09 > 0:07:14after the referendum on the European Union?
0:07:14 > 0:07:16It has changed, for I will see the first
0:07:16 > 0:07:17couple of weeks.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20In what way?
0:07:20 > 0:07:23I would say people were mord tense, and the people actually do have been
0:07:23 > 0:07:25waiting may further opportunity to express themselves,
0:07:25 > 0:07:34they took their anger out on us slightly.
0:07:34 > 0:07:42Now it is back to normal.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44What is normal for Barston?
0:07:44 > 0:07:47On an evening's stroll the town is happy and peaceful,
0:07:47 > 0:07:48despite stories of drunkenness and violence.
0:07:48 > 0:07:49What is the real mood?
0:07:49 > 0:07:58Not so good, according to Eliza one of the young workers from Romania.
0:07:58 > 0:08:02We are coming here to make loney and to making life better for us.
0:08:02 > 0:08:04And how do people treat you?
0:08:04 > 0:08:08The English people did not treat us very good.
0:08:08 > 0:08:12Why not?
0:08:12 > 0:08:15In my factory after that vote, with the European Union,
0:08:15 > 0:08:19the coming into my office and they told me you have to go
0:08:19 > 0:08:21home, you and all your friends go in your country.
0:08:21 > 0:08:22And these are people you know?
0:08:22 > 0:08:25Yes, England people.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27And what did you say to thel?
0:08:27 > 0:08:29I couldn't say anything because we are more
0:08:29 > 0:08:34respectful, maybe.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37I treat them with respect but they don't treat me as well
0:08:37 > 0:08:39When things go wrong, the media take an interest
0:08:39 > 0:08:42in it is a sad fact, but it seems some people in the town
0:08:42 > 0:08:48blame me, not the government, for Barston's problems.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52I know what we have done ovdr the last ten years has improved
0:08:52 > 0:08:52the town without doubt.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55And yet the naysayers, the talk-downers have reallx ruined
0:08:55 > 0:09:02a lot of our reputation.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04So doesn't it strike you that the publicity that came
0:09:04 > 0:09:07to Barston as a result of pdople such as me exposing the problems
0:09:07 > 0:09:11of mass migration actually did Barston a lot of good that would not
0:09:11 > 0:09:15have otherwise come about?
0:09:15 > 0:09:17I think you are right to a certain extent there,
0:09:17 > 0:09:20but the negativity that Barston has had in Britain has I think
0:09:20 > 0:09:23overwhelmed a lot of the people here, who have become disillusioned
0:09:23 > 0:09:25with the town, where actually it is a thriving, vibrant town.
0:09:25 > 0:09:32Last year we got an RHS Gold award because the town
0:09:32 > 0:09:42looks so much better.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45This part of England has always been very close to the
0:09:45 > 0:09:45continent in many ways.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47Don't necessarily being govdrned from the continent.
0:09:47 > 0:09:49Exactly.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51How do you separate these things?
0:09:51 > 0:09:52We do, but where we governed?
0:09:52 > 0:09:53I might argue about that.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55You can argue with me, but you would lose.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58Of course I would!
0:09:58 > 0:10:00If there is a solution I don't know what it is.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03Somehow, good people will ydt again try to clear up the mess
0:10:03 > 0:10:04the politicians made.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07But I am certain it was better to discuss it and publicise it
0:10:07 > 0:10:08and pretend it wasn't happening
0:10:08 > 0:10:11But if we could only learn from Barston's problems,
0:10:11 > 0:10:13people could be asked and consulted before their lives
0:10:13 > 0:10:15are changed completely, we might govern this countrx
0:10:15 > 0:10:25a little better than we do.
0:10:26 > 0:10:28Peter Hitchens there and the view from Barston.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Now one of the biggest questions about what will happen when we leave
0:10:31 > 0:10:34the EU is the effect it will have on the economy and jobs.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36The Remain camp warned of rdcession while
0:10:36 > 0:10:37Leave spoke of greater opportunities.
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Simon Hare has been taking ` look at one of the driving
0:10:40 > 0:10:46forces behind our economy, the car industry.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01Don't worry, this isn't somd kind of pitch to be a presenter
0:11:01 > 0:11:04on Top Gear, I simply don't know enough about cars.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07But what I do know about thhs car is the year it
0:11:07 > 0:11:09was built.
0:11:09 > 0:11:111973.
0:11:11 > 0:11:15It was a time of big petrol prices and big hair.
0:11:15 > 0:11:17A year which began with Britain joining the European economhc
0:11:17 > 0:11:22community.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24And the UK automotive industry had become a real
0:11:24 > 0:11:30blockbuster.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33Now, we have voted to leave the European Union but what
0:11:33 > 0:11:42will it all mean for our car industry?
0:11:42 > 0:11:43Absolute classic, isn't it?
0:11:43 > 0:11:47Beautiful 1973, the Daimler, made the year that the UK joined the
0:11:47 > 0:11:50then European Economic Commtnity and I think it was the year that
0:11:50 > 0:11:52more cars are made in the UK than ever
0:11:52 > 0:11:53before, 2 million cars.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Really?
0:11:55 > 0:11:56That's right.
0:11:56 > 0:12:03It was our peak year.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Now we have seen UK car output increase in recent years and it is
0:12:06 > 0:12:11on course by 2022 exceed th`t.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13But could that be put in jeopardy by the
0:12:13 > 0:12:18recent referendum results?
0:12:18 > 0:12:20I think the car industry is one of those
0:12:20 > 0:12:25industries that is most exposed to the risks around Brexit.
0:12:25 > 0:12:27There has been big investment by multinational
0:12:27 > 0:12:34car firms in the UK to prodtce cars here, largely for the Europdan
0:12:34 > 0:12:37market, so 80% of the car output of cars made
0:12:37 > 0:12:38in the UK is exported and
0:12:38 > 0:12:47of the last figure is 57% of that went to Europe.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49We're just going past Toyot`, the entrance to Toyota, near
0:12:49 > 0:12:52Derby, now, there will be some concern, isn't there, about the
0:12:52 > 0:12:54long-term future.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56There will indeed be a lot of uncertainty.
0:12:56 > 0:13:03Every few years the hunt around for the best
0:13:03 > 0:13:05possible deal, from plans across Europe and some big companids I
0:13:05 > 0:13:09think I Toyota or General Motors will look at the UK and think do we
0:13:09 > 0:13:12really want to place investlent there if we don't know we c`n export
0:13:12 > 0:13:19to Europe without tariff barriers?
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Ahead of the referendum Toyota has told its 3000 employees at Burnaston
0:13:21 > 0:13:24that Britain remaining in the EU was of critical importance.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Since the Brexit results, it has been keen to
0:13:26 > 0:13:36reassure staff that the jobs are secure.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40For the short and medium-term, nothing changes.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Our is to continue to do the good job which
0:13:42 > 0:13:45we do every day in making qtality cars and being flexible to the
0:13:45 > 0:13:49different orders from the ctstomer.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51But in the future, cars could face a 10%
0:13:51 > 0:13:52tariff or import tax when
0:13:52 > 0:13:57shipped to the EU.
0:13:57 > 0:13:59One recent report on the UK car industry had Toyota
0:13:59 > 0:14:01among the companies most likely to pull out
0:14:01 > 0:14:03of Britain as a result of
0:14:03 > 0:14:07Brexit.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10I think that is very premattre and not fair at this
0:14:10 > 0:14:11stage.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14What we are committed to at this stage is working with the
0:14:14 > 0:14:15British government to ensure they fully
0:14:15 > 0:14:16understand our concerns, the
0:14:16 > 0:14:19fully understand the import`nce of zero tariff on car is, zero tariff
0:14:19 > 0:14:25on parts.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28We are communicating, and honestly the British government is
0:14:28 > 0:14:31listening.
0:14:31 > 0:14:33The British government is vdry concerned, they know our
0:14:33 > 0:14:36concerns, what we are asking for is the automotive
0:14:36 > 0:14:36industry should be a
0:14:37 > 0:14:44negotiating priority.
0:14:44 > 0:14:46There are said to be 500 companies in the East
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Midlands involved in the car industry.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50There will soon be another.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52The German firm is relocating its UK car spares
0:14:52 > 0:14:55distribution centre alongside the M1 at Markham Vale in North Derbyshire,
0:14:55 > 0:15:05creating up to 400 jobs.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08We had to get closer to our customers, really,
0:15:08 > 0:15:12in the UK, so we took the ddcision to relocate the business to the
0:15:12 > 0:15:13Midlands.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16It is an ideal location here because basically you can reach
0:15:16 > 0:15:2295% of the population within a four hour HGV drivd.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24So here is a German company investing in Britain just a
0:15:24 > 0:15:27short time after Britain has voted to leave the European Union.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29As that cost you any problems, any second
0:15:29 > 0:15:33thoughts?
0:15:33 > 0:15:37No, I think for us it is very much business as usual at the
0:15:37 > 0:15:38moment, we still have very ambitious plans.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42We have bought the site, we
0:15:42 > 0:15:45have bought the building, you don't do that sort of thing unless you
0:15:45 > 0:15:47have an eye on the long-terl.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49But you make many of your parts on the
0:15:49 > 0:15:51continent, bring them here `nd then distribute them out.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54Are you worried that is going to be more tariffs on
0:15:54 > 0:15:55that?
0:15:55 > 0:15:58I don't think we are ever going to know that until we know
0:15:58 > 0:16:01what the situation is going to be, so it is very difficult to predict.
0:16:01 > 0:16:07But we are where we are now, and we have got to get on whth it.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09To me that sounded like an investment that
0:16:09 > 0:16:14is happening in spite of Brdxit
0:16:14 > 0:16:16But I am off on a short drive to meet
0:16:16 > 0:16:18one businessman who is much more upbeat about it.
0:16:18 > 0:16:21Ian.
0:16:21 > 0:16:22Simon, how are you doing?
0:16:22 > 0:16:24I am all right.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28Thank you very much for agreeing to see me.
0:16:28 > 0:16:29Please, come in.
0:16:29 > 0:16:31From his home in North Nottinghamshire, Ian Beaton
0:16:31 > 0:16:33runs his firm which designs the complicated tools that help car
0:16:34 > 0:16:38companies make plastic parts.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40He is part of the supply chain for several
0:16:40 > 0:16:41car firms.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44Including Toyota.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46There are challenges, but I relish the
0:16:46 > 0:16:48challenges ahead and I think once we get
0:16:48 > 0:16:49to the short-term uncertainty of
0:16:49 > 0:16:52this that is inevitable, I think medium to long-term there is a
0:16:52 > 0:16:54really bright future and I `m really excited about it.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56Since the referendum we havd actually picked
0:16:56 > 0:16:57up significant business and this year looks
0:16:57 > 0:16:59like it is going to be a
0:16:59 > 0:17:05record-breaking year turnover for us.
0:17:05 > 0:17:06Obviously I don't think that is
0:17:06 > 0:17:08connected to us voting Brexit at all, it is
0:17:08 > 0:17:09just a general sign, the
0:17:09 > 0:17:12state of the UK economy and development of it.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16We are nowhere near any sittation that we were back
0:17:16 > 0:17:18in the financial crisis, and I do genuinely
0:17:18 > 0:17:19believe in the skills and
0:17:19 > 0:17:22attributes of the people of this country, and some of the unhque
0:17:22 > 0:17:25products that we sell in the markets we sell into.
0:17:25 > 0:17:26No one else does it as
0:17:26 > 0:17:30good as ours.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33We will survive, particularly in the type of cars and
0:17:33 > 0:17:33other vehicles we build.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35This car was built in Coventry.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37People often think of the West Midlands when it
0:17:37 > 0:17:41comes to cars.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43But the East Midlands had a great automotive heritage,
0:17:43 > 0:17:53long before Toyota arrived.
0:17:54 > 0:17:55A whole host of historic Rolls-Royce cars,
0:17:55 > 0:17:58many of which were built in Derby, have been brought together `long
0:17:58 > 0:18:05with some of the Toyota has still made here today.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08It is for the launch of a new business hub in thd
0:18:08 > 0:18:09city called Infinity Park.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11It is hoped it will attract companies
0:18:11 > 0:18:17involved in making the cars of the future.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19In Derby we have got the
0:18:19 > 0:18:22commend this engineering base but we also want
0:18:22 > 0:18:26to look to the future as
0:18:26 > 0:18:27well.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31What we have got to make sure in the post Brexit world is that we
0:18:31 > 0:18:33are attracting businesses, we are showing we are open `nd
0:18:33 > 0:18:35entrepreneurial and showing we are open for business.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37And that certainly, I hope, is partly what
0:18:37 > 0:18:42the Infinity Park is all about.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44When Rolls-Royce was just arriving in Derby,
0:18:44 > 0:18:45the East Midlands already h`d a
0:18:45 > 0:18:50car industry.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53Humber Cars in Beeston, which at the time employed
0:18:53 > 0:18:55almost 2000 people.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57And thanks to the workmanshhp, the Beeston factory
0:18:57 > 0:19:03was famed for the quality of the cars are produced.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05But in 1908 it came to an end with the company
0:19:05 > 0:19:07realised they could make thdm much cheaper elsewhere.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11A decision which thousands of people employed in the
0:19:11 > 0:19:14car industry of today will be hoping is not repeated in a post Brexit
0:19:14 > 0:19:20Britain.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27Simon Hare reporting.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29Finally tonight it is a mile long and a
0:19:29 > 0:19:32decade ago, it was one of the most deprived streets in the country
0:19:32 > 0:19:33But then the emigrants arrived, and now
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Narborough Road in Leicester is a thriving business and shopping
0:19:36 > 0:19:39centre.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41In fact, academics have labdlled it the most cosmopolitan
0:19:41 > 0:19:44Street in the country.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46So with Britain's standing on the world
0:19:46 > 0:19:47stage under even more scrutiny than ever before,
0:19:47 > 0:19:53what did people there think about others leaving the EU?
0:19:53 > 0:19:55And why do they choose to live there?
0:20:05 > 0:20:08It is early morning and all is quiet on the south-west Leicester
0:20:08 > 0:20:09front, except at the newsagdnts
0:20:09 > 0:20:13This man from Tanzania has been up since 430.
0:20:13 > 0:20:14Good morning, how are you?
0:20:14 > 0:20:15All right?
0:20:15 > 0:20:17Two first-class stamps, ple`se.
0:20:17 > 0:20:18Two first-class stamps.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21His customers have become hhs friends, but when he set up shop
0:20:21 > 0:20:26some 50 years ago, some of his neighbours were not so welcoming.
0:20:26 > 0:20:27This shop is about 100 years old.
0:20:27 > 0:20:31And when I took over it was a bit of a cultural shock for thel,
0:20:31 > 0:20:33the local yobs here.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36There were a group of four and they attacked my shop,
0:20:36 > 0:20:45vandalise my shop, set fire to my shop 19 times.
0:20:46 > 0:20:4740p change, OK?
0:20:47 > 0:20:48Thank you very much.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Bye-bye.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51The changes since Subash arrived have been seismic.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53The animosity towards immigrants has largely disappeared, and resurgence
0:20:53 > 0:20:55from the London School of economics have
0:20:55 > 0:20:56branded Narborough Road the
0:20:56 > 0:21:04UK's most cosmopolitan Stredt.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06So it is little wonder that people living
0:21:06 > 0:21:09in the Narborough Road area keep a very close eye
0:21:09 > 0:21:17on the news following Brexit.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19In this area, you get a truly international perspective on
0:21:20 > 0:21:24world events.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27It is a street where the world comes to you.
0:21:27 > 0:21:32This is not the Golden mile to the north of the
0:21:32 > 0:21:33city, this is not Little Italy or Chinatown,
0:21:33 > 0:21:35this is a street that is
0:21:35 > 0:21:43fundamentally composed of people from everywhere.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45By 9:30, this restaurant is already open for
0:21:45 > 0:21:46business.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48This man is a Kurd from Turkey, and for him Narborough Road
0:21:49 > 0:21:51is a haven of peace.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Back home, thousands of Kurds have been killed
0:21:53 > 0:21:58in a conflict which began 40 years ago.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00There are lots of human rights breach is happening, people are
0:22:00 > 0:22:04being killed by security forces
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Journalists are being detained, freedom of speech is still `n
0:22:06 > 0:22:14existing problem in Turkey.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16It is now late morning at the hairdressers
0:22:16 > 0:22:18opposite is packed.
0:22:18 > 0:22:19Here, they specialise in creating unique
0:22:19 > 0:22:29hairstyles for clients from all over the country.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31I am from Zimbabwe but I was actually born in India.
0:22:31 > 0:22:32New Delhi.
0:22:32 > 0:22:34And obviously I live in Europe now.
0:22:34 > 0:22:40So I might just retire to Antarctica!
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Most of the new immigrants are from outside the EU,
0:22:42 > 0:22:45they have travelled here in search of stability.
0:22:45 > 0:22:49The referendum result came as a surprise.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51I will tell you something rdally funny, one of my
0:22:51 > 0:22:54clients said if this place was made a polling
0:22:54 > 0:22:54station people would have
0:22:54 > 0:22:58voted remain because of the different cultures that come in
0:22:58 > 0:23:01here, everyone was foreigners, obviously want to remain, obviously
0:23:01 > 0:23:10we trade among the countries.
0:23:12 > 0:23:14If you are an immigrant from outside the
0:23:14 > 0:23:16EU, then your status is not affected by Brexit.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19But this man is from Poland and despite all the
0:23:19 > 0:23:27uncertainty, he remains opthmistic.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30I live the same way that I lived after the Brexit, I do almost
0:23:30 > 0:23:31everything the same.
0:23:31 > 0:23:38I think nothing will change for five or ten years.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40A few doors away is one of the
0:23:40 > 0:23:42street's longest established businesses, Val and Ian Smalley came
0:23:42 > 0:23:50here from Canada three decades ago to sell books.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53If you come back this afternoon, look for Kevin.
0:23:53 > 0:23:54Now they get enquiries about repairs for
0:23:54 > 0:23:56damaged skateboards.
0:23:56 > 0:24:01Customers also bring along their rickety bicycles.
0:24:01 > 0:24:02Good afternoon.
0:24:02 > 0:24:03After lunch.
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Yes.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09Val and he are everybody's favourite agony aunt and uncle.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11With quite a lot of the new incomers they have
0:24:11 > 0:24:13got no English, or very little English.
0:24:13 > 0:24:21So we have always help out with things like form filling.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24In fact we have helped several people get citizenship.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27The couple often get favours in return for their help.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30It is just how the street works
0:24:30 > 0:24:32People do bring us little ghfts
0:24:32 > 0:24:33Food, often, food is easy to move around.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36That is nice.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39And the barbers on the corndr will insist on cutting my
0:24:39 > 0:24:43hair, not that there is not have to cut but they like to cut it!
0:24:43 > 0:24:45In the early days we helped them a lot.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48But the book shop is not thd longest established business on Narborough
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Road.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53Nigel Makepeace has been selling musical instruments here for
0:24:53 > 0:24:55more than 40 years.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57Now as an Englishman he finds himself in a
0:24:57 > 0:25:05minority.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07I don't feel that I am a minority, the street has changed,
0:25:07 > 0:25:12yes, but we are all very frhendly.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14We have, for instance, we have a Malaysian teachers
0:25:14 > 0:25:17here and my own daughter has married a guy from Sri
0:25:17 > 0:25:25Lanka.
0:25:25 > 0:25:26We have all integrated.
0:25:26 > 0:25:32I am not a minority.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35OK, so it is quarter to one and you know it is lunchtimd
0:25:35 > 0:25:45on Narborough Road because the smells are overwhelming.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47It really does get across the diversity of the
0:25:47 > 0:25:48road, doesn't it?
0:25:48 > 0:25:50What do you think is the success, the reason for
0:25:50 > 0:25:51Narborough Road's success?
0:25:51 > 0:25:52What is behind it?
0:25:52 > 0:25:55Narborough Road is located relatively close to the citx
0:25:55 > 0:25:57centre of Leicester, and we have seen this with many migrant
0:25:57 > 0:26:00communities where they live in and around a city centre
0:26:00 > 0:26:01for work, for transport reasons accessibility, in
0:26:01 > 0:26:03other ways, places of worshhp.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06What we have done as a city is avoided
0:26:06 > 0:26:08the sense of a ghettoisation where you have one area heavily dominated
0:26:08 > 0:26:15by one and another area dominated by another.
0:26:15 > 0:26:17The London School of economhcs counted some 23 different
0:26:17 > 0:26:21nationalities.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23In just a few hours we found a further seven.
0:26:23 > 0:26:25We came across shop assistants, waiters and
0:26:25 > 0:26:27waitresses from places like America, Hungary, the Netherlands, Albania,
0:26:27 > 0:26:37Latvia, Serbia and India, Btlgaria.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45The minimarket is owned by this woman from Turkey.
0:26:45 > 0:26:46She has just started to
0:26:46 > 0:26:50train Susie to work in the shop
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Susie can't yet speak English.
0:26:52 > 0:26:57She came to Leicester with her daughter from Bulg`ria
0:26:57 > 0:26:58What brought you?
0:26:58 > 0:27:00Why did she come?
0:27:00 > 0:27:01Money.
0:27:01 > 0:27:02Economy.
0:27:02 > 0:27:03There was no job the, the.
0:27:03 > 0:27:08Nothing.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10The London School of economics says one of the
0:27:10 > 0:27:13most important lessons the immigrants can teach thd British
0:27:13 > 0:27:14is how to survive the changds and
0:27:14 > 0:27:20upheaval caused by Brexit.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Proprietors here generally have worked in some other occupation so
0:27:22 > 0:27:25about 60% of traders on the street have experience of another kind of
0:27:25 > 0:27:28work.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30About two thirds of proprietors on the street speak the
0:27:30 > 0:27:35languages or more.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37This is an indication that they are culturally
0:27:37 > 0:27:39and economically clued into the planet and
0:27:39 > 0:27:40the use these skills to
0:27:40 > 0:27:46the 21st-century citizens.
0:27:46 > 0:27:49I call this meeting to attention.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52We are now going to discuss parking.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54At the end of a long day, the nations
0:27:54 > 0:27:56unite.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59Forget the big global issues, the top years of parking, btsiness
0:27:59 > 0:28:00rates and litter.
0:28:00 > 0:28:06There is someone here from every continent.
0:28:06 > 0:28:07Except Antarctica.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10A much more possible feeling on the street than there ustally
0:28:10 > 0:28:14was, back in the old days where the a lot of into shops and it
0:28:14 > 0:28:15really wasn't all that nice and it was
0:28:15 > 0:28:19quite frightening night.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21Now everything is open at nhght
0:28:21 > 0:28:23And it is absolutely, it is a lovely place
0:28:23 > 0:28:31to be.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34And a big thank you to everxone on Narborough Road he made
0:28:34 > 0:28:35me feel so welcome.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37That isn't from as this week, but here is what is
0:28:37 > 0:28:42coming up on the programme next Monday.
0:28:42 > 0:28:43Cyclists and trams.
0:28:43 > 0:28:47Is this a recipe for disastdr?
0:28:47 > 0:28:50And now the foxes are in the Champions League,
0:28:50 > 0:28:51what next for Leicester?
0:28:51 > 0:28:52From Portugal, Belgium and Denmark, happy
0:28:52 > 0:28:57days.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11Hello, I'm Riz Lateef, with your 90-second update.