Brexit Has Failed So Take Us Back Into the EU, Say Voters
Exclusive new poll finds that British people believe our future lies with Europe
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EXCLUSIVE POLL FINDS BRITS THINK BREXIT HAS FAILED
VOTERS DEMAND CLOSER RELATIONS WITH EUROPE
BRITS PRIORITISE EU RELATIONS OVER THOSE WITH US
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British people believe Brexit has been a failure and want the UK to return to a much closer relationship with Europe, according to an exclusive new poll for the Byline Supplement.
Asked whether Brexit had been a success or a failure, 55% told pollsters Omnisis that it had failed, while just 18% said it had succeeded.
Even Leave voters were more likely than not to say that Brexit had been a failure, with 32% saying it hadn’t worked, compared to 31% who said it had.
Labour leader Keir Starmer this week dismissed calls to take the UK back into the EU, or the European Single Market, telling the anti-EU Daily Express that “those arguments are in the past where they belong”.
However, voters appear to disagree with this assessment.
According to new polling by Omnisis, 61% of decided voters said they would now vote to rejoin the EU, compared to just 39% who said they would vote to remain outside.
While rejoining the EU may still be a distant prospect, our poll found that voters want their Government to forge closer relations with Europe, even if we remain formally outside.
According to our poll, 47% of all voters want the UK Government to forge a closer trading relationship with Europe, compared to just 10% who want a more distant one.
Not So Special Relationship
The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is due to travel to Washington next week to meet with US President Joe Biden.
Expectations for the meeting are low. Relations between the two men are not close and the Prime Minister’s spokesman this week talked down the prospect of the two countries ever striking a free trade deal together, in answer to Byline Times.
The abandonment of the prospect of a US free trade agreement marks a big change for the UK government, which has long talked up the prospect of a deal between the two countries as a major potential “benefit of Brexit”.
However, as our new polling shows, there appears to be little public appetite for switching the UK’s trading focus from Europe to the US.
Asked which was more important - our trading relationship with the EU or our trading relationship with the US - a large majority of voters told Omnisis that Europe should be the UK’s priority.
Overall 60% said the UK’s focus should be on trading with the EU, with just 20% saying it should instead be with the US.
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