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Why did Sheffield vote to leave the EU?

Sarah Montague investigates EU attitudes in the city and speaks to Lord Blunkett

The Leave campaign went into the referendum as the underdogs. Places like Sheffield were expected to lean to Remain. So what persuaded the people there that their best interests lay outside the EU?

Sarah Montague goes to Sheffield to find out and speaks to Lord Blunkett, the former Home Secretary who was a Labour MP in the city.

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