A growing number of Britons say the UK made a mistake in Brexit, according to a Standard analysis of more than 200 polls. It showed that on average just under 49 per cent of adults thought it was wrong, compared with just over 38 per cent still saying it was the right decision, with 13 per cent saying “I do not know”, according to with 11 surveys. held this year. The average annual gap between those who believe it was “wrong” to vote in favor of leaving compared to the “right” increased to double digits for the first time in 2022, to 10.6 percentage points. This is almost double the gap of 5.5 percentage points last year and much higher than 6.4 percentage points in 2020 and just under seven points in 2019, according to the analysis of 211 polls that asked if people afterwards they believed that Britain was right or wrong. vote in favor of leaving the EU. The latest figures also compare to the result of the 52 to 48 Brexit referendum in 2016 on Britain’s exit from the European Union.
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The findings come as the government appears to be trying to avoid any public assessment of the financial impact of Brexit since the country voted in favor of leaving six years ago. Brexit Minister Jacob Rees-Mogg recently declined to say whether the government had conducted such studies and if so what they had revealed, and suggested that other estimates were “wholesale”. However, Labor MP Hillary Benn, co-chair of the UK Committee on Trade and Business, said: “Brexit has made life more difficult for British companies trying to sell in Europe because of the high cost of bureaucracy and red tape. . their. “But a decision has been made and the question now is how to build a new and different relationship with our European neighbors.” Sarah Olney, a Liberal Democrat spokeswoman for business and an Richmond MP, said: “Government trade deals have stifled our business in the bureaucracy and increased costs for families. “Ministers need to work hard to get our economy back on track.” Former British Brexit negotiator Lord Frost has acknowledged that leaving the EU may have hit UK exports by 5%, but believes the country’s performance “continues to improve and that figure could well change”. further as the data are normalized “. He also doubts that leaving the EU will have a “measurable impact on our GDP in one way or another”. Patrick English, deputy director of political and social research at YouGov, said there had been no dramatic change in the country’s view of Brexit over the years. He said: “Between the first YouGov poll on this issue and today’s figures, there was only an increase of about 6 points in the percentage of people who believe that Brexit was the ‘wrong’ decision and a slightly larger, but still small, decrease. the percentage of people who think it was “right”. He added: “A large percentage of the widening gap between right and wrong can only be attributed to the replacement of generations, with Brexit supporters much more likely to be older and those who have argued to remain much younger. “The relative stability of attitudes reflects how deeply rooted the Brexit gap is in British politics and public opinion, evolving into a much more political identity than a political preference.” The Treasury has been largely silent on the impact of Brexit and the Bank of England has been accused of being reluctant to talk about it to avoid upsetting the government. However, a recent report by The Resolution Foundation, in collaboration with the London School of Economics, warned that Brexit would hit workers’ real wages by around 470 a year, compared to what it would be, and undermine its competitiveness. Of Britain. Another report, by the Center for European Reform, estimated that the United Kingdom was hit by 31 31 billion in GDP from Brexit in the fourth quarter of 2021. Meanwhile, the government’s attempt to effectively tear down parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol overcame the first obstacle of the Communities, without any Tory MP voting against it despite warnings that the plans were illegal. MEPs voted 295 to 221, with a majority of 74, to give the Northern Ireland Protocol bill a second reading, paving the way for a detailed review in the coming weeks. Voter lists showed dozens of Conservative MPs abstaining, while former Prime Minister Theresa May made it clear she would not support the bill as she warned it would “reduce” the UK’s global standing and gave a wrying assessment of its legitimacy and impact. Following the result, Secretary of State Liz Truss posted on Twitter the bill, which gives ministers powers to bypass parts of the post-Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland, “provides practical solutions to the problems posed by the Protocol and protects its Agreement. Belfast (Good Friday). “While our preference remains a result of the negotiations – the EU must accept changes to the Protocol itself,” he added.
