And with that, we're bringing our coverage of Question Time's Brexit special to a close.

If you would like to rewatch tonight's programme, you can click on the video at the top of this page, or tune into BBC One after the Ten O'Clock News.

Want to know how people in Clacton-on-Sea, where tonight's programme was broadcast from, feel seven years after the Brexit vote? You can read our piece here.

And for a comprehensive analysis of the impact Brexit has had on the UK economy, you can click here.

Tonight's coverage was edited by Marita Moloney. It was written by Sam Francis and Aoife Walsh, with videos by James Harness. Thank you for joining us.

If any of the discussion on tonight's Question Time left you wanting to learn more about the thorny issues around Brexit, you can take a listen to the BBC's investigation on the impact of Brexit has on all our lives here.

On the question of the benefits and downsides of Brexit, Alastair Campbell took John Redwood to task over the Conservative's manifesto pledge over a quick trade deal with the US.

Redwood said the UK was building good relationships again with countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica and Canada, because "we cut them off when we joined the EEC, we were very cruel to them".

"They've been nice to us. When we decided to liberate ourselves they said 'well you're welcome back and yes, we'd like a good trade deal with you'," he adds.

During a debate about how much Brexit has impacted the economy, audience member Lewis told the panellists that Brexit has made his business more difficult.

Former Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib argued that the UK exported more last year than before the pandemic, and the trade deficit is roughly what it has been for years.

That's a wrap on Question Time's Brexit special from Clacton-on-Sea. We'll be bringing you more highlights from the programme as well as reaction, so stay with us.

As we approach the end of the programme, Alastair Campbell says there's a real danger that the UK will be reduced to to the third and fourth tier of international relations.

"I honestly believe this is one of the biggest acts of self harm we as a country have ever inflicted on ourselves," he says, adding that the next generation has a right to undo what their predecessors did.

Ben Habib, the former Brexit Party MEP, says the country has to leave the EU as one United Kingdom.

The Windsor Framework needs to be ditched and 1.8 million British citizens need to be brought back into the UK, he says.

Asked what he would do with the border, he says the border is recognised in the Good Friday Agreement.

He accuses Ireland's Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar of weaponising the border.

He says there is a border in the middle of the United Kingdom, which is an "abomination to me".

Prof Anand Menon says both parties have “manoeuvred” themselves into trying to “say as little as possible about Brexit”.

He argues he would like to have both major parties being “honest about trade-offs”, then the UK “can at least have an honest debate”.

Conservative MP John Redwood says the Tories need to go back to its agricultural subsidy regime, as it spends too much money on stopping people farming and should spend more on creating British food.

He says we need to make sure we get more of our own fish, and he says VAT should come off more things, like domestic energy.

Redwood says he wants an immigration policy that meets more of people's wishes, and for the government to promote trade deals with a service element in them.

The labour market needs to be fixed and the government is working on that, he says.

Labour is not going to have a referendum and has no plans to go back into the EU, Jenny Chapman says.

A Labour government need “to fix the holes” in the current deal with the EU, she argues, including “getting rid of red tape”.

“The reality now is we are outside the EU, we’ve got to make it work and we can make it work,” she tells the audience.

She says while the EU is not “sitting by the phone” waiting for a new deal, there is “no reason why the EU wouldn’t want to discuss with us problems we can fix for mutual benefit”.

Alastair Campbell says one of the economic consequences of Brexit was serious disruption to the labour market.

He says there is a staffing crisis in some public services because of that.

Politicians have got to be honest and say these problems need to be fixed by making it easier to allow some people in, he adds.

Campbell says instead, they want people to think the immigration problem is about people fleeing war and prosecution on small boats.

He says the real problem is how we fix supply chain problems and the labour market churn, which will require some immigration.

John Redwood, a Tory MP, says it is “good news” that the UK is “now able to take control of our borders”.

“I was not expecting 600,000” people to come in this year, he says. After “special factors” like the Ukraine war end, “we now need to use the powers, we’ve got to say there will be fewer people in the future”, he adds.

He argues too much immigration puts “too much pressure” on the housing supply and the available jobs.

Former Brexit Party MEP Ben Habib says now that at the heart of being an independent sovereign nation is having control of the borders.

He says the government has failed to have a policy on skilling up and increasing productivity of domestic British citizens. He says they've relied on immigration as an easy fix.

He says the reason the UK has rampant, unchecked legal migration is because the government hasn't got joined up thinking on how to skill up the nation's workforce.

A man in the audience, who says he is a developer of small nuclear power stations, says he needs "streamlined immigration" for workers as "we just haven’t the skill set in the UK".

He says paperwork is causing a huge issue for businesses post Brexit.

A woman in the audience says she voted for Brexit to "take back control" but argues "there is no control" over borders anymore.

Labour's Jenny Chapman says there's no doubt the government has lost control of illegal and legal immigration.

She says it takes so long to make a decision on an individual application and people are waiting for years to have them processed.

People are being put up in unsuitable accommodation and that's costing everyone a fortune, she argues.

She says the number of work visas has gone up exponentially.

Chapman claims the reason for this is because the government allows employers to pay someone recruited abroad 20% less than they would have to pay if they were recruited in the UK.

She says this has to be stopped, and if something has been on the shortage application list for more than 10 years, something has to be done to train people here.

Next question for ab audience member: We now see more people entering in the UK than we ever did when members of EU - why has the Tory party mismanaged our borders?

Derek, who asked the question, says “one of the reasons” he voted to leave the EU was “to manage our own borders and stop people coming into this country as and when they feel like it”.

Labour's Jenny Chapman says that "the things people thought they were going to get didn't happen".

But the country isn't going to hell in a handbasket by not being in the EU, we have a great future, she says.

Chapman adds that "we can't have this mess of a government" that is more concerned with peerages and partying during Covid than fixing the issues around Brexit.

Conservative MP John Redwood says the UK has received some dividends from Brexit and he lives in hope there will be more.

He claims the EU is going on a "spending spree" and has raised billions of borrowings - and that the UK won't be responsible "for all that debt".

He says there are big reductions in outgoings to the EU, which the country is enjoying.

A man in the audience argues “the only lie” was politicians pretending they would respect the 2016 vote.

“We haven’t even started Brexit yet,” he tells the panel. Following the Brexit vote there were “three years of frustration”, before Covid and then the Ukraine war derailed the process.

Another audience member argues the 17 million who voted for Brexit were “voting for underlying issues” such as national sovereignty, “not slogans on the side of a bus”.

A third man in the audience says Brexit has been “hijacked by the Tory right”. He argues Brexit would be “better if everyone came together”.

Alastair Campbell, a remainer, says lots of people voted for sovereignty.

He says the people who led the Brexit campaign told a lot of lies and are still lying now.

Campbell says people who directly lied in the democratic debate need to be held to account.

He says Dominic Cummings ran the campaign, and Boris Johnson was his "puppet".

He said they wanted to get out on whatever basis, and no one had a plan for what Brexit is.

The next question from a member of the audience is whether Leave voters will see any Brexit dividends or were they deceived?