They no longer think Brexit was such a hot idea
Britons would now vote to rejoin the EU in a second referendum by a record 14-point margin, a new poll has found.
A tracker poll found support for reversing Brexit is now at 57 per cent, compared to just 43 per cent who want to keep it.
Support for rejoining has steadily ticked up since the start of this year – with ‘out’ still ahead as recently as May this year.
But the survey by Redfield and Wilton Strategies for the UK in a Changing Europe think-tank shows the picture has changed quickly amid economic and international turmoil.
Professor Sir John Curtice, a respected political scientist at the University of Strathclyde, said that the shift may be down to changes in the economic situation – and suggested the trend may continue.
“In reporting on the poll in February we noted that evaluations of the economic consequences of Brexit were particularly strongly related to changes of mind about being inside or outside the EU. This pattern is replicated in the latest poll,” he wrote in an analysis of the findings.
The professor said it seemed “highly likely that a darkening of the public mood on the economic consequences of Brexit helps explain the increase in support for joining the EU” and added that it should not be ruled out “that the financial turbulence of recent weeks may at least have helped to reinforce that mood”.
I suspect that ship sailed. After all the disruption they caused with this silly tantrum, the UK is on its own.Maybe in 50 years or so …
This is what comes from people ascribing all their problems to foreigners. There’s a lesson in that.