 Politicians such as Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg have become associated with this point of view.Additionally, the 2008 financial crash and the Eurozone crisis of late 2009 may have encouraged others to want to move the UK's economy further away from Europe's increasingly integrated economy as a means of protecting it.According to a 2019 study in the "American Economic Review," austerity reforms introduced in 2010 may have contributed to a Leave victory in the Brexit referendum by raising political dissatisfaction.