Britons have shared their views four years after Britain left the EU.
Back in 2020 Boris Johnson, who had just won an 80-seat majority promising to "get Brexit done", hailed the date as the start of a new golden era for Britain.
Talking to GB News, some were delighted with how Brexit had panned out.
One person said: "I'm a fisherman and my quota before we left was a waste of time. I couldn't work, I couldn't live on it.
One Briton fumed at a perceived failure to take advantage
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"Now because of Brexit, I can catch a ton of skate a week, a month. Now I'm allowed to catch 10-ton skates a month."
Another said: " I am very disappointed and we can now look forward to the future. But God knows what's going to happen when it comes to an election. I don't regret it.
"I was a leaver and I remain that we should be independent and stand on our own feet. But unfortunately, no one in government has got the guts to stand up and do what the people want."
However, a lingering sentiment amongst Britons was perceived Tory ineffectiveness when it came to reaping the rewards of leaving the EU.
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Another Briton was disappointed by the number of small boat Channel crossings
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“I don’t feel like anythings changed really”, one said.
“We all got told a load of tosh”, she added. “It’s a shame Boris has gone because he was the one who started the ball rolling and I think if he hadn’t got kicked out we might have got better.”
“We haven’t moved on as much as I would have liked”, another said/
“I feel like at the moment, nothing much is moving. Especially with the boats crossing the Channel.”
Boris Johnson, the former prime minister who enacted Brexit in 2020, chimed in with heralding the opportunities the UK has outside the bloc.
“Four years on from Brexit we celebrate the restoration of this country’s democratic power to make its own laws and rules,” he tweeted.
The former Tory leader said “Brexit freedoms” had allowed Britain to sign its own trade deals, improve animal welfare standards and “created greater flexibility for cutting edge industries”.
He fired a warning shot to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over reports the No 10 incumbent’s deal to restore the Stormont Assembly will see the UK avoid diverging with Northern Ireland by potentially joining the region in aligning with EU goods rules — a move said to be aimed at placating unionists.
