Five years ago the Vote Leave campaign took a victory in Wiltshire after securing 52.4 percent of the county vote – oddly mirroring the UK figures.

At the Olympiad in Chippenham it was declared that Brexiteers secured 151,637 votes in Wiltshire, compared to the Remain campaign’s 137,258.

MP for Devizes at the time, Claire Perry, said she was “sorry we could not get the result many of us wanted,” while James Gray MP spoke of his delight following the democratic vote.

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South West Wiltshire MP Andrew Murrison said: “I am very pleased at the result and it is now for the government to carry out the instructions that it has been given by the public.”

While many were torn, all of the county’s MPs commented on the sadness of Prime Minister David Cameron’s departure.

What followed was years of toe-curling back and forth with the EU to negotiate the United Kingdom’s departure.

Arguments were waged over the validity of the Brexit bus’ claims and how much the Leave campaign simply traded on a nation’s nostalgia for an empire it never knew and tries its best never to acknowledge.

Questions loomed over whether or not the country would be forced into a hard Brexit, over the Irish Sea – a question still debated – and the sort of trade deal the country would get following its departure.

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Five years on after all this, we asked our readers if they would still vote the same way as they did in the original referendum.The results were remarkably unchanging.

Of the 806 people who responded 52 percent said that they voted to leave the EU and would do so again. While only 36 percent said they would vote to remain again if another referendum was held.

Five percent said they would vote remain after initially electing to leave and seven per cent said they would vote leave despite voting to remain in the 2016 referendum.