0:00:19 > 0:00:21Welcome to this special edition of Reporters.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24I'm James Reynolds, here at the European Union
0:00:24 > 0:00:27in Brussels, as Britain deals with the fallout from its historic
0:00:27 > 0:00:30referendum result to leave the EU.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33We have got a range of reports from our correspondents
0:00:33 > 0:00:36across Europe about what the vote means for the future of Britain
0:00:36 > 0:00:39and also the future of the EU.
0:00:39 > 0:00:41Coming up:
0:00:41 > 0:00:43Europe without Britain.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46EU leaders meet for the first time in more than 40 years
0:00:46 > 0:00:48without the UK.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50But there are angry clashes in the European Parliament.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53I said that I wanted to lead a campaign to get Britain to leave
0:00:53 > 0:00:56the European Union.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58You all laughed at me.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Well, I have to say, you're not laughing now, are you?
0:01:01 > 0:01:05I ask Mr Farage, if you had an ounce of decency in you,
0:01:05 > 0:01:09you would apologise today to the British.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Shame on you.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14Hurray, hurray, we're out today.
0:01:14 > 0:01:15A divided nation.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19Mark Easton examines the social and generational splits behind
0:01:19 > 0:01:21the referendum result.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23I think it's gone too far.
0:01:23 > 0:01:24I think the country's gone too far.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27I think the country will never be the same again.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29I really feel really ashamed of my country at the moment.
0:01:29 > 0:01:34So, yeah, yeah, it's really sad.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37As Sinn Fein calls for a poll on Irish unity, Fergal Keane reports
0:01:37 > 0:01:40from what will become the United Kingdom's land border
0:01:40 > 0:01:43with the EU on concerns for the Northern Ireland peace process.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46You just take your country back.
0:01:46 > 0:01:48Take our country back.
0:01:48 > 0:01:49It's not racism.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52They are just coming across too much.
0:01:52 > 0:01:54Race and the referendum.
0:01:54 > 0:01:58Ed Thomas investigates reports of a rise in cases of abuse
0:01:58 > 0:02:01and hatred towards immigrants, following the poll.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05And a message from the millennials.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07Europe's youth tell the EU what they think
0:02:07 > 0:02:09about Britain's exit.
0:02:09 > 0:02:13Britain, come back!
0:02:14 > 0:02:17If last week's Brexit vote was, as some have called it,
0:02:17 > 0:02:20the most seismic result in generations, then this week
0:02:20 > 0:02:22came the after-shocks.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25The battle for David Cameron's job, turmoil in the opposition
0:02:25 > 0:02:29Labour Party, and Britain's exclusion from an EU
0:02:29 > 0:02:32meeting for the first time in more than 40 years.
0:02:32 > 0:02:34These were all some of the highlights.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38But perhaps the most memorable exchanges of all came from a special
0:02:38 > 0:02:41session of the European Parliament to discuss the referendum result.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44Damian Grammaticas reports now on the reaction of Europe's
0:02:44 > 0:02:47politicians to the UK's decision to leave.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52Across town from where Europe's leaders were meeting,
0:02:52 > 0:02:56a British winner in Brussels today.
0:02:56 > 0:03:01Nigel Farage, preparing to savour his moment of triumph over
0:03:01 > 0:03:03the EU and its institutions.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07The president of the commission, Jean-Claude Juncker,
0:03:07 > 0:03:10banned his staff from having any negotiations with British officials
0:03:10 > 0:03:14until the UK gives notice it is exiting the union.
0:03:14 > 0:03:18Now, after staying silent throughout the referendum,
0:03:18 > 0:03:21Europe's politicians held little back.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24The worst liars can be found among Ukip.
0:03:24 > 0:03:25On Friday...
0:03:25 > 0:03:28APPLAUSE.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32On Friday, Nigel Farage said publicly that the promised
0:03:32 > 0:03:36?350 million a week would finally not go to the National Health
0:03:36 > 0:03:37Service.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40It had all been a lie.
0:03:40 > 0:03:44I ask Mr Farage, if you had an ounce of decency in you,
0:03:44 > 0:03:47you would apologise today to the British.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49Shame on you.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51APPLAUSE.
0:03:51 > 0:03:57Most here are, of course, believers in Europe's project,
0:03:57 > 0:04:00shocked by the outcome and also by the tone
0:04:00 > 0:04:03of Britain's referendum debate.
0:04:03 > 0:04:08What makes it so hard for me and I think also for the other
0:04:08 > 0:04:11groups' leaders and for everybody here in this house is
0:04:11 > 0:04:13the way it succeeded.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16The absolute negative campaign.
0:04:16 > 0:04:22The posters of Mr Farage, showing refugees like in Nazi
0:04:22 > 0:04:25propaganda because they...
0:04:25 > 0:04:29APPLAUSE.
0:04:29 > 0:04:30He replied with scorn of his own.
0:04:30 > 0:04:34I know that virtually none of you have ever done
0:04:34 > 0:04:37a proper job in your lives.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39APPLAUSE.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42The chamber had to be called to order.
0:04:42 > 0:04:47The reason you are so angry has been perfectly clear from all the angry
0:04:47 > 0:04:50exchanges this morning.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53You as a political project are in denial.
0:04:53 > 0:04:57You are in denial that your currency is failing.
0:04:57 > 0:05:01That drew jeers but some shared Nigel Farage's views.
0:05:01 > 0:05:08TRANSLATION: Our British friends' vote in favour of leaving
0:05:08 > 0:05:11the European Union is by far the most important event
0:05:11 > 0:05:14in our continent since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18It is a signal of freedom sent out to the entire world.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22Then came this, an impassioned Scottish plea to Europe.
0:05:22 > 0:05:27My colleagues, there are a lot of things to be negotiated.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31We will need cool heads and warm hearts.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35But please, remember this, Scotland did not let you down.
0:05:35 > 0:05:41Please, I beg you, chers collegues, do not let Scotland down now.
0:05:41 > 0:05:49The ovation a sign that sentiment now has considerable sympathy here.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51For Nigel Farage, this is the culmination of a lifetime's
0:05:51 > 0:05:54political project, to get the UK out of the EU.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57What we heard from the European side is they want talks now to begin
0:05:57 > 0:06:01as soon as possible and there will be, they say,
0:06:01 > 0:06:04no favours, no cherry-picking by Britain in those.
0:06:04 > 0:06:08Damian Grammaticas, BBC News, Brussels.
0:06:08 > 0:06:10Divisions in the European Parliament, there, reflecting
0:06:10 > 0:06:13the divisions exposed within the UK itself.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16Northern Ireland and Scotland voted to remain.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19But England and Wales chose to leave.
0:06:19 > 0:06:23Of the nine English regions, only London voted to stay.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26Mark Easton has been looking at the results and what they reveal
0:06:26 > 0:06:33about the country's social and generational divides.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Peterborough has Anglo-Saxon roots, a cathedral city on the edge
0:06:39 > 0:06:42of England's fenlands, that voted decisively
0:06:42 > 0:06:45to leave the European Union.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Since the enlargement of the EU in 2004, this city has seen
0:06:48 > 0:06:52the arrival of some 15,000 Eastern and Central European migrants,
0:06:52 > 0:06:55helping fuel an economic boom in the city but also putting
0:06:55 > 0:06:58pressure on public services and perhaps most fundamentally
0:06:58 > 0:07:02of all, changing the character of this ancient English settlement.
0:07:02 > 0:07:05Hurray, hurray, we are out today.
0:07:05 > 0:07:09People here are excited about Brexit, optimistic that
0:07:09 > 0:07:12leaving the EU means a better Britain, with more homes...
0:07:12 > 0:07:16I might be able to get accommodation that has been given to a refugee.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19More opportunity...
0:07:19 > 0:07:21English people will be able to get more jobs.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23More control...
0:07:23 > 0:07:27We want our own borders back and we can make our own laws.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30And a better life.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34Now should be a bank holiday, Independence Day.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36On Peterborough's Lincoln Road, where the EU arrivals have set up
0:07:36 > 0:07:40businesses and put down roots, one quickly gets a sense
0:07:40 > 0:07:43of the resentment that immigration has spawned.
0:07:43 > 0:07:46This might help explain why Peterborough voted Leave,
0:07:46 > 0:07:50a traditional English bakery, closed after 136 years and why?
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Well, people tend to blame something that has happened two doors down,
0:07:53 > 0:07:57a shiny new Polish delicatessen.
0:07:57 > 0:08:01The three generations that ran the shop, it traded
0:08:01 > 0:08:04for over 100 years.
0:08:04 > 0:08:05I think it's gone too far.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07I think the country's gone too far.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10I think the country will never be the same again.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13But we can only hope that we can put a stop to that and perhaps rebuild
0:08:14 > 0:08:15it a little bit better.
0:08:15 > 0:08:19Just 40 miles south, a city of similar size with a very
0:08:19 > 0:08:22different view of Brexit.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26Cambridge voted by almost three to one in favour of Remain.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29Its economy is international.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Its population thinks globally.
0:08:31 > 0:08:35At the city's station, there's a multistorey bicycle park.
0:08:35 > 0:08:39This is a young, energetic, highly-educated place that sees
0:08:39 > 0:08:42Europe not as a threat but an opportunity.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44Today, for many, is a dark day.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48I really, feel really ashamed of my country at the moment.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52So, yeah, yeah, it's really sad.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54It's incredibly depressing.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57The world fragmenting is not a world I want to live in.
0:08:57 > 0:09:01I'm the founder of a company in this area that has attracted
0:09:01 > 0:09:04lots of investment and employs 70 people in Cambridge
0:09:04 > 0:09:06and people worldwide.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09We will be seriously thinking about moving on from there.
0:09:09 > 0:09:10I don't know what to say.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12Just need to see what's going to happen.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Do you feel very nervous about it now, as somebody from Italy?
0:09:15 > 0:09:20I think I still need to realise what happened!
0:09:20 > 0:09:25Britain finds itself deeply divided.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28Optimism and pessimism swirl like counter-currents
0:09:28 > 0:09:30in the same stream.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34Successful navigation will require cool heads and skilled hands.
0:09:34 > 0:09:37Mark Easton, BBC News, Cambridge.
0:09:37 > 0:09:41Scotland voted to remain and its First Minister,
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Nicola Sturgeon, has said she will do everything possible
0:09:43 > 0:09:47to prevent Scotland from being forced out of the EU.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Britain's decision to get out has sent shockwaves across the Republic
0:09:51 > 0:09:54of Ireland, the only country to share a land border with the UK.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58And as Fergal Keane reports, it raises the controversial question
0:09:58 > 0:10:03as to whether or not border controls may have to return between Northern
0:10:03 > 0:10:08Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10The army used to call this "bandit country", The borderlands
0:10:10 > 0:10:12of South Armagh.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14When I reported here during the Troubles,
0:10:14 > 0:10:16it was a place of blocked roads...
0:10:16 > 0:10:18You can't come down this way, no.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20The road is closed.
0:10:20 > 0:10:24Of ambushes and watchtowers.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28But political compromise and EU money helped to change
0:10:28 > 0:10:30the landscape.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32The guns vanished.
0:10:32 > 0:10:34The security bases closed.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37Thanks to the peace process, the physical manifestations,
0:10:37 > 0:10:41the huge security presence along the border is no longer necessary.
0:10:41 > 0:10:46But because of Brexit, the Irish Republic now becomes this
0:10:46 > 0:10:51country's land border with Europe, with unknown political
0:10:51 > 0:10:54and economic implications.
0:10:54 > 0:10:58The Republican dead are still invoked to support Sinn Fein's
0:10:58 > 0:11:01campaign for a united Ireland.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04Today, the party seized on the Brexit vote to say the time
0:11:04 > 0:11:07had come for a border referendum.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10Roisin Mulgrew is a local politician and businesswoman.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14We have always felt that as a 32-county Ireland,
0:11:14 > 0:11:16we are stronger.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17We can attract investors.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20That is what people need to sit down and really look at it.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23So it is an economic rather than a nationalist argument?
0:11:23 > 0:11:24It's both.
0:11:24 > 0:11:28Close to the border, Protestant farmer Roy Harper has
0:11:28 > 0:11:31bitter memories of the Troubles.
0:11:31 > 0:11:34Ten of his neighbours were killed in a sectarian massacre nearby.
0:11:34 > 0:11:39Prosperity and peace should have made him a natural Remain voter
0:11:39 > 0:11:42but he is celebrating, glad to be rid of red
0:11:42 > 0:11:43tape, he says.
0:11:43 > 0:11:47We are told there is going to be a lot of money available
0:11:47 > 0:11:50because we are not sending it into the EU coffers.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52But I don't think the Troubles...
0:11:52 > 0:11:55Well, I sincerely hope not but I couldn't see any connection
0:11:55 > 0:11:58between the two things.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00You have Sinn Fein today calling for a referendum on the border.
0:12:00 > 0:12:04A lot of people tell me they would rather be as we are not
0:12:04 > 0:12:07be in a united Ireland.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Catholics as well as Protestants?
0:12:10 > 0:12:12That is Catholic people as well as Protestants.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Just a general mix of people.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18A lot of people don't want anything to do with a united Ireland.
0:12:18 > 0:12:20We are better off here.
0:12:20 > 0:12:25It was always an ambitious notion that being part of Europe
0:12:25 > 0:12:28would soften Ulster's battle of identities, especially
0:12:28 > 0:12:32in working-class communities.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34But the EU played an important role in supporting peace,
0:12:34 > 0:12:36not least with money.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39A 500lb bomb...
0:12:39 > 0:12:42Where an army base once stood on the north Belfast peace line,
0:12:42 > 0:12:46it built this cross-community centre.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49Let's get a bit of feedback from around the room as well.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51This class is for young people who lead summer camps
0:12:51 > 0:12:55for mixed groups of Catholic and Protestant children.
0:12:55 > 0:12:56What do you feel about what has happened?
0:12:56 > 0:13:01Um, well, I feel it's an absolute...shame, like.
0:13:01 > 0:13:05Our whole future, of young people, is just...
0:13:05 > 0:13:09It's not going to be what it was supposed to be.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12There won't be a border poll any time soon, but in a climate
0:13:12 > 0:13:18of reviving nationalisms in the UK and political uncertainty,
0:13:18 > 0:13:21the delicate political balance here can be easily upset.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24Fergal Keane, BBC News, Belfast.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27Back in Britain, David Cameron has condemned reported incidents
0:13:27 > 0:13:31of abuse and hatred towards UK immigrants following
0:13:31 > 0:13:33the referendum result.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37He said that his government will not tolerate intolerance.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40Ed Thomas reports now on how race and immigration dominated
0:13:41 > 0:13:43the referendum campaign.
0:13:43 > 0:13:47Immigration - for decades, it has shaped this part of Leeds.
0:13:47 > 0:13:51But right now, the latest to arrive, the Eastern Europeans,
0:13:51 > 0:13:55are facing a test like never before.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58People keep saying, "Why are you still here?
0:13:58 > 0:14:00Why are you not going back to your own country?"
0:14:00 > 0:14:01Vilius is from Latvia.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05He says every day after the referendum, he's faced abuse.
0:14:05 > 0:14:06Do you feel under threat?
0:14:06 > 0:14:09At the moment, yes because I don't know what it is going
0:14:09 > 0:14:10to be like later.
0:14:10 > 0:14:11It's very simple.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14When people shout that at you, to get out, what do you say?
0:14:14 > 0:14:16Why should I get out?
0:14:16 > 0:14:18There is tension.
0:14:18 > 0:14:19This is my street, yeah?
0:14:19 > 0:14:22Obviously, we had no Romanians or Polish people here before.
0:14:22 > 0:14:23Where are they now?
0:14:23 > 0:14:25We have got them here.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27They are at the end of the street.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29Consider Rubel, a second-generation immigrant, now frustrated
0:14:29 > 0:14:33at Europeans arriving in the place he calls home.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35I work and pay taxes.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37I got married abroad myself but I am paying the way
0:14:37 > 0:14:39to get my missus here.
0:14:39 > 0:14:43I'm in a situation where like, I can just see these lot coming over
0:14:43 > 0:14:45and messing things up for me.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47Immigration, was that your big issue?
0:14:47 > 0:14:48yeah, yeah.
0:14:48 > 0:14:49Do you want it to stop?
0:14:49 > 0:14:51I want it to stop.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53And many here feel like they can now speak out.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56They've got their own country as well and not just flood Britain.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59Take Wayne, who voted out after years of concern over immigration.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Just close the barrier, stop.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04Because it's too much.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Do you want the migrants to go home now?
0:15:06 > 0:15:09I want them to go out as soon as possible, really.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11To go back to where...?
0:15:11 > 0:15:13To go back to where they came from.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15There's more that have a reason to say that.
0:15:15 > 0:15:16After the Brexit vote?
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Yes.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21It's important to put this into perspective.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24We have heard of dozens of cases of European migrants facing abuse.
0:15:24 > 0:15:29But this is a sensitive time and many people in places like this
0:15:29 > 0:15:32are worried about what happens next.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36EU migrants have been told they have a right to stay but that
0:15:36 > 0:15:40message is not getting through to everyone.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Renata left Lithuania four months ago, a single
0:15:43 > 0:15:45parent looking for work.
0:15:45 > 0:15:47TRANSLATION: It's going to be different.
0:15:47 > 0:15:52We have been for many years in the EU, so we are just
0:15:52 > 0:15:55all guessing what is next. Everyone is really scared.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58And then we find Lee.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00I'm a nationalist. I am for this country.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Outside a Polish shop, proud to call himself a fascist,
0:16:03 > 0:16:05and wanting to talk.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08Just take your country back. Take our country back.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10It's not racism.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12They are just coming across too much.
0:16:12 > 0:16:16Once that vote happened, what were your thoughts
0:16:16 > 0:16:19and feelings? A sense of relief.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21You felt relieved after the Brexit vote?
0:16:21 > 0:16:22Yes.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25There are extreme voices, and for some European migrants,
0:16:25 > 0:16:27a fear, fed by uncertainty, of what will come.
0:16:27 > 0:16:29Ed Thomas, BBC News, Leeds.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32The results, as we've heard, confounded the pollsters.
0:16:32 > 0:16:38It came after a nine-week campaign characterised by bitter debate
0:16:38 > 0:16:41among political allies as well as opponents.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45James Landale reports on how the campaign
0:16:45 > 0:16:48was won and lost.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51Leave EU!
0:16:51 > 0:16:52So how did they do it?
0:16:52 > 0:16:53CHEERING.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57How did the Leave campaign defy expectations and win so many
0:16:57 > 0:16:59votes in so many areas?
0:16:59 > 0:17:03We are better off, we are stronger, we are safer inside...
0:17:03 > 0:17:06The start of the campaign was dominated by pro-Remain
0:17:06 > 0:17:10politicians warning about the economic risks of Brexit.
0:17:10 > 0:17:14But voters did not trust the experts or the celebrities and by the end,
0:17:14 > 0:17:16it was Leave's slogan that you could not escape.
0:17:16 > 0:17:20Vote Leave to take back control.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Take back control.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24Take back control.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26Is it not time we took back control?
0:17:26 > 0:17:30At the same time, people heard Leave's warnings about the impact
0:17:30 > 0:17:33of immigration on public services and its fears about what it saw
0:17:33 > 0:17:36as the threat of Turkey joining the EU.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39The Leave campaign was very disciplined in getting
0:17:39 > 0:17:42its message out on money, migration and accession,
0:17:42 > 0:17:45especially of Turkey.
0:17:45 > 0:17:48Secondly, I think it had an optimistic note.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50It was much more hopeful about what you will get
0:17:50 > 0:17:52if you are willing to leave.
0:17:52 > 0:17:56And if we Vote Leave and take back control, I believe that this
0:17:56 > 0:18:01Thursday could be our country's Independence Day.
0:18:01 > 0:18:06And in Boris Johnson, Leave were blessed with a popular
0:18:06 > 0:18:09figurehead who, with Michael Gove, brought political showbiz
0:18:09 > 0:18:13and intellectual credibility to a campaign that reached out
0:18:13 > 0:18:15to swing voters.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18And while there were some tensions with Nigel Farage,
0:18:18 > 0:18:21the Ukip leader ran his own campaign and appealed beyond his core support
0:18:21 > 0:18:25to traditional Labour voters, many of whom sensed Jeremy Corbyn's
0:18:25 > 0:18:28equivocation about supporting Remain.
0:18:28 > 0:18:33Leave won the referendum because they successfully mobilised
0:18:33 > 0:18:36a particular section of British society.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39Economically disadvantaged, mainly white, older,
0:18:39 > 0:18:44English voters who live outside of London but don't feel
0:18:44 > 0:18:47as though they have been winning from globalisation,
0:18:47 > 0:18:51from European integration, and who wanted to send a very
0:18:51 > 0:18:54strong message on identity concerns like immigration.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57A group of people who are not regular voters but whom Leave
0:18:57 > 0:19:00deliberately targeted.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04This campaign wasn't just about Boris and borders.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07It was won by the Leave campaign because they tapped into a wider
0:19:07 > 0:19:10sense of antiestablishment feeling which won the support of voters
0:19:10 > 0:19:13who feel left behind by globalisation and often ignored
0:19:13 > 0:19:15by mainstream politics.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19James Landale, BBC News, Central London.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Membership of the European Union and before that, the common market,
0:19:25 > 0:19:27has been a central focus of Britain's foreign policy for more
0:19:27 > 0:19:28than 40 years.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32So leaving will mark a fundamental shift in Britain's place
0:19:32 > 0:19:36in the world and in its relations with other countries.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39Here's James Robbins with a look back at Britain's relations with
0:19:39 > 0:19:43Europe and the impact of the result.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47The entire course of Britain's post-imperial history has
0:19:47 > 0:19:49been turned on its head.
0:19:49 > 0:19:51Now to represent the Queen in the celebrations
0:19:51 > 0:19:53marking the transformation of the century-old Gold Coast...
0:19:53 > 0:19:5660 years ago, The Age of Empire was coming to an end.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58Colonies started getting independence and Britain
0:19:58 > 0:19:59struggled to find a role.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03It was a new alliance with our European
0:20:03 > 0:20:05neighbours which beckoned.
0:20:05 > 0:20:08Officially, we became members at midnight, local time.
0:20:08 > 0:20:111973, Britain finally joined the common market.
0:20:11 > 0:20:14Is Europe stronger with Britain a member?
0:20:14 > 0:20:16Yes!
0:20:16 > 0:20:2140 years on, a leading historian of post-war Britain says it's
0:20:21 > 0:20:24impossible to exaggerate the magnitude of this
0:20:24 > 0:20:26referendum's effects.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30Never in our peacetime history have so many dials been reset as a result
0:20:30 > 0:20:33of a single day's events.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36The only thing comparable in my lifetime, and I was born just
0:20:36 > 0:20:39after the war, is getting rid of the British Empire.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42But this is sudden, guillotine time, quite extraordinary
0:20:42 > 0:20:45and in peacetime, quite unprecedented.
0:20:45 > 0:20:49Once upon a time, Britain seemed enthusiastic
0:20:49 > 0:20:51about staying in Europe.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54This was Margaret Thatcher campaigning in the 1975 referendum.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58But as Prime Minister in the '80s, she became increasingly hostile.
0:20:58 > 0:21:03Both feeding and feeding off popular headlines which helped drive
0:21:03 > 0:21:06a growing sense that Britain was surrendering
0:21:06 > 0:21:08too much sovereignty.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11No, no, no!
0:21:11 > 0:21:15Fast forward to this century and British opposition
0:21:16 > 0:21:18to the entire project grew.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22A combination of migration, global economic crisis,
0:21:22 > 0:21:27plus the Eurozone's travails, tipped British public opinion
0:21:27 > 0:21:29to this outright rejection of the European Union.
0:21:29 > 0:21:33So will Britain find a new role and can it remain America's first
0:21:33 > 0:21:36friend after quitting Europe's top table?
0:21:36 > 0:21:38Where would you like us?
0:21:38 > 0:21:41That is the danger, that Britain seems like Little Britain,
0:21:41 > 0:21:44if you like, that it won't be speaking for a whole block
0:21:44 > 0:21:46or anything more than itself.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49It will still obviously be available as an ally for the US in terms
0:21:49 > 0:21:51of military support and intelligence support but whether it counts
0:21:51 > 0:21:55as much symbolically, which has been part of the value
0:21:55 > 0:21:58to Washington, that is what is in doubt now.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01For 50 years, Britain's prime ministers have come and gone,
0:22:01 > 0:22:05courting Europe, joining Europe, by turns infuriated and sometimes
0:22:05 > 0:22:11enthused, until David Cameron bet his job on it and lost.
0:22:11 > 0:22:15Britain has chosen another, quite different path.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17James Robbins, BBC News.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23Only around a third of young voters between 18-24 took part
0:22:23 > 0:22:24in the referendum.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27But what do their European counterparts think of Brexit?
0:22:27 > 0:22:30We have been speaking to a number of millennials,
0:22:30 > 0:22:33Europeans of a similar age, to find out what they think
0:22:33 > 0:22:36the EU should do next.
0:22:36 > 0:22:40I think, just, we go back to our social values because we have
0:22:53 > 0:22:56I think, just, we go back to our social values because we have
0:22:56 > 0:22:58changed everything to please countries like Great Britain.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01I don't like Juncker, not that much, but I think he was right,
0:23:01 > 0:23:03out is out.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06All you should do is just go away.
0:23:06 > 0:23:06I think that Britain should have stayed in the EU but on the other
0:23:14 > 0:23:17I think that Britain should have stayed in the EU but on the other
0:23:17 > 0:23:20hand, I also understand they left because I think
0:23:20 > 0:23:22the EU just went too far.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25They should keep the countries more independent and they should
0:23:25 > 0:23:26introduce less laws.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34My message to European leaders is that I think young people
0:23:34 > 0:23:39want to be living in a world, like, an open world, free
0:23:39 > 0:23:42for everyone to travel and to meet new people, new cultures.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45I don't want countries to follow the example
0:23:45 > 0:23:47of the United Kingdom.
0:23:50 > 0:23:53Britain, come back!
0:23:54 > 0:23:58My message to the European Parliament is that I understand
0:23:58 > 0:24:00the choices that were made with the Brexit.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03We have a similar thing going on in Denmark where we don't
0:24:03 > 0:24:07like the bureaucracy and the control over our traditions and such.
0:24:07 > 0:24:12However, I think that we should compromise on our ideologies
0:24:12 > 0:24:15for the greater good.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27The view of Europe's youth on Brexit.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29Will things ever be the same again?
0:24:29 > 0:24:32That is all from this special edition of Reporters for this week.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34From me, James Reynolds, here at the European Union
0:24:34 > 0:24:36in Brussels, it's goodbye for now.