De Wit en de Brit

43min

Documentary

Who are the winners and losers of Brexit? Former United Kingdom correspondent Tim de Wit returns to reflect on his own role as a journalist and to investigate what became of the Brexit promises. Has migration decreased? Has healthcare improved?

Episodes

Cast

De nieuwkomer

1. De nieuwkomer

42min

2nd Feb 2025

Exactly five years after leaving the EU, what has become of the most important Brexit promise: drastic restrictions on immigration? Tim de Wit returns to the apartment where his correspondentship in the UK began and looks back on his nerves and stress at that time. He meets the country's most notorious tabloid journalist, who still hunts for migrants with his camera. And he sees how his date from the time, also an immigrant, has now built a successful company.

De zieke man van Europa

2. De zieke man van Europa

42min

9th Feb 2025

One of the most important Brexit promises was more money for healthcare. How do things stand now? Tim de Wit talks about the struggle with his chronic illness in a country where more than seven million people are on the waiting list. He meets Nigerians looking for a new life as a doctor or nurse in the UK. And he sees his ex-girlfriend who now works as a doctor in a private clinic.

Belofte maakt schuld

3. Belofte maakt schuld

43min

16th Feb 2025

How are things going in the UK's deprived areas? Tim de Wit goes to the place that received the most EU subsidies and ends up in the beauty salon of a young entrepreneur. At his favorite football club Millwall he discovers that poverty already started around the corner from his own apartment. And he finally meets the man he never got to speak to during his correspondentship, Boris Johnson. The man without whom there would have been no Brexit.

First air date

2nd Feb 2025

Last air date

16th Feb 2025

Status

Returning Series

Type

Documentary

Original language

nl

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