Seven years on from the day Britain decided its fate, people across Greater Manchester are still divided

Seven years ago today, voters across Greater Manchester went to the polls with two options in front of them.

Leave or remain. It was a very simple choice — for a very complicated question.

The lead up to the Brexit referendum led to the exposure of huge divisions within the UK, and many hoped that the thorny issue of our membership of the European Union could be resolved, once and for all, with the in-out ballot.

It did anything but that.

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In the intervening years, Britain has had two general elections — the most recent fought over how it was best to exit the EU — and seen Brexit become the easiest way of starting an argument over the dinner table.

Now, seven years on from the UK’s most recent referendum, the Manchester Evening News spoke to voters from all 10 Greater Manchester boroughs on the eve of the eve of the anniversary to see if residents would change their vote if they had the benefit of hindsight.

We found that remain voters unsurprisingly didn’t think the withdrawal from the trading bloc has been a success. However, leave voters were move divided — with some believing Brexit needs to be given more time, while others wish they could switch allegiances.

In a special report, these are their stories.

“I voted leave. It was the worst thing I’ve ever done, because there’s been so many changes,” a woman from Reddish, sitting on a bench in Stockport town centre told the M.E.N. She declined to give her name, but carried on. She said: “It affects me because my son lives in Spain so I travel a lot though. And they promised us all sorts but have they delivered?”

Such was her disappointment with how the process turned out, she added that she has