Brexitland (World 2020, by Mark Henley) - Swiss Press Award
Mark Henley
Heavily damaged Union Jack, the British flag flying in Boston. Boston was the district which voted most extremely for Brexit in the UK, by 75.6% per cent of the popular vote on a high turnout of 77.2%. The neighbouring fenland district of South Holland, was the second most in favour of Brexit.
Le Temps
Photo / World
2020
Mark Henley
Reportage 2018-2019 in the heart of Brexitland, the damp flat agricultural districts of South Lincolnshire that voted most extremely to leave the EU - and where I happened to grow up. Not however, the Britain of my birth, but a new 'England', born out of the consequences of cuts to services, frustration at inequality, mass migration, the political establishment and a certain native stubbornness.
