脱欧投票使得对这些较贫穷地区的关注变得倍加必要：应对催生支持脱欧微弱多数票的分裂性政治，并尽量减少因英国与其最大贸易伙伴决裂所必然导致的经济损失 — — 特别是在谈判不力的情况下。
The Brexit vote makes it doubly necessary to focus on these poorer regions: to address the divisive politics that underpinned the narrow Leave majority, and to minimize the economic damage that the rupture with the UK’s biggest trading partners, especially if badly negotiated, is sure to cause.