As the sun rose on the 24 June – and the result of the referendum became clear – television crews scrambled to capture the kaleidoscopic range of emotions felt by the British public.
Themes began to emerge. For students, dingy union bars were the go-to setting. Dejected, gaunt-faced, and perhaps a little drunk, they stared vacantly at each other, stomaching just a few words: “uncertainty”, “leap into the unknown”, “future stolen”.
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