Sir Patrick Stewart is famously opposed to Brexit. At Wednesday night’s premiere of the series Star Trek: Picard, the British actor described it as “the grimmest” political event of his lifetime.
The UK is due to leave the European Union on 31 January 2020. The referendum was held in mid-2016, with 51.89% of voters electing to leave the EU. An awful lot of commotion and false starts have since occurred, causing the downfall of two Prime Ministers.
The Conservative Party claimed a decisive victory over the opposition Labour Party in the December 2019 General Election. Prime Minister Boris Johnson – a devout leave-supporter – is on track to enact a hard Brexit, which will dismantle the UK’s longstanding ties with the EU.
Stewart is none too happy about any of this. “It makes me very, very sad,” he told PA Media at the Star Trek premiere.
Stewart had previously attempted to gain US citizenship in order to oppose Donald Trump. He’s given up on that plan since Johnson’s rise to power.
“I think we have our own Trump in our country here today, so I am going to be using my vote to try and get rid of him,” he said.
Star Trek: Picard centres on Stewart’s character of Jean-Luc Picard. It’s set at the end of the 24th century, 20 years after the events of 2002’s Star Trek: Nemesis. It’s set for release on January 23, 2020.
