The Big Read: The poll that shook the world
29 June 2016 - 09:56
In July 1961, in London's West End, a new musical play debuted to critical and commercial success. Entitled Stop the World - I Want to Get Off , it was set in a circus. Last Thursday, British voters sent a similar, though far more serious, message to their country and the world, when 17million of them voted to leave the EU.
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