Leeds is a city divided and confused by Brexit
Sky News visits Leeds where Leave and Remain voters feel equally let down and are questioning what the future of the UK will be.
Sunday 20 January 2019 19:01, UK
The lack of progress on Brexit has left Leeds, a city that was split down the middle in the EU referendum, in confusion.
Ardent Leave voter Verity Minton told Sky News she feels let down.
"I think everyone who led the Leave campaign just vanished and left everyone feeling confused," she said.
Verity, 31, is the manager of a Spanish-owned retail outlet in the city centre and is convinced the country will thrive outside the EU.
"Theresa May's not had a backbone and I feel like she's been terrified, ultimately she's a Remainer, so she isn't really going to fight for what people voted for," she said.
Leeds is the UK's biggest financial and legal centre outside London, with a £21bn economy and a high proportion of young workers.
But it is also a city of disadvantage, with 31% of its school children living in areas among the most deprived 10% in the country.
In the Whiteley Hair Studio in the city's legal quarter, where a cut and blow dry is £34, there is no shortage of customers even if there is a lack of understanding about why Brexit is not being delivered.
Co-owner Sally Akeroyd, celebrating 21 years in business, does not know what to make of it.
"I really don't understand it and I feel extremely sorry for Theresa May," she said.
Although she will not say how she voted in the referendum she worries about what she calls the backlash over the decision to Leave - but still thinks it should stand.
"We've already voted and they should have left it at that," she insisted.
In Wortley, outside the city centre, where official statistics say pockets of deprivation are as bad as you'll find anywhere, tile firm Ceramique Internationale is staunchly Remain.
The company imports stock from Italy and although commercial director Cameron Frazer wants to stay in the EU he is pragmatic.
"As a business we're happy to move on and be positive about moving on, but to what?" he asked.
"We don't know and the most worrying thing is the politicians don't seem to know either, so what do we do?"
One of the firm's 18 employees, showroom manager Emma Chapman, is convinced a second referendum is the answer.
She voted Remain, and thinks more people will vote with her if they had another chance, if only through worry about what she sees as chaos.
"They'll vote to stay in this time round, purely from worry more than anything, which is a shame, but I think that's what would happen," she said.
:: Sky News will broadcast a special live debate called Brexit Crisis - Deal Or No Deal this evening from 7pm to 8pm.
An invited audience of voters in Leeds will react to the results of a Sky Data poll on some of the key issues facing the country.