The Express’s Senior Political Correspondent, Katie Harris, went to Clacton-on-Sea in Essex to speak to the town’s residents about the historic Brexit vote five years on.

Nigel Farage’s constituency recorded one of the highest leave votes in the country with almost 70% opting to split from Brussels.

John Button, 95, expressed fears that the UK is being dragged back into the EU’s orbit.

said: “There seems to be a move to bring us back in by stealth which I’m against. I’m very strongly for Brexit.”

He said he would vote for Brexit again and that the biggest win was the “sense of pride” in the country.

John Ramsey, 68, Holland-on-Sea, voted to leave but said “nothing seems to have changed” and that immigration “seems to have got worse”.

On if he would vote the same way again, he added: “Yes because in the end I think we’re better on our own.”

The 68-year-old added that he had “a lot” of concerns about Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, saying: “He’s terrible, he’ll just want to give the country away.”

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