"THE Golden Cross Welcomes you to Redditch!" The greeting, on the wall of a pub outside the town's railway station, is valiant. But the dingy wire fence and mossy concrete beneath it let down the enthusiasm of the sign's welcome. Redditch is struggling. In recent years, wages have fallen. It has also seen a rapid rise in the number of migrants, in particular those from eastern Europe. Perhaps linking these two phenomena, the people of Redditch voted 62:38 to leave the European Union in the referendum last June.
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