With the UK and EU agreeing to ease red tape, Kent faces a key question: could rising costs and shifting attitudes spark a change in public opinion?
Our reporter Ollie Leader hits Gravesham to find out.
Our reporter Ollie Leader hits Gravesham to find out.
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00:00a brand new deal with the european union worth nine billion pounds that might be welcome economic
00:08news in some parts of the country but whether that can be said for kent and medway is a different
00:17story gravesham like many other parts of kent overwhelmingly voted to leave the eu back in 2016
00:27with 65.4 percent of voters choosing leave at the ballot box now after our departure in 2020
00:40do voters here feel better off and do they support the new deal between the eu and the uk
00:48i've had a referendum on brexit and it's decided that people wanted to leave
00:56but the way i see it now i see labor trying to go in the back door and reunite us with europe
01:05you know when they were we see things have not gone up like this but now everything is too costly
01:11people are struggling when we used to get a lot of cheap potatoes and strawberries in summer and lots
01:17of stuff like that and they're still bringing it over from europe and paying more for it
01:24yeah you've got so much money coming in but you've got to spend more to get what you want so yeah
01:29even simple things like cooking oils are more expensive everything really because they're more
01:34expensive get back to a better trading environment with our closest neighbors really so that yeah
01:41everything just works better yeah anything that helps and way things are at the moment nothing's
01:46helping so if it helps fine part of the reason for this deal with the eu is to make these groceries
01:53here much cheaper these are the everyday essentials and they're more expensive since brexit according to
02:01the office of national statistics take tomatoes these used to cost around two pounds per kilogram now they
02:10cost more like three quid fixing this may put more money back in people's pockets here in kent reducing red tape
02:21could potentially mean the end for lorry queues at the port of dover and other border crossings as well
02:29but whether it will alleviate some of the brexit remorse on the streets of north kent
02:36is another matter entirely ollie leader in gravesend