Don’t suppose there’s any more of that ‘will of the people’ stuff going around? Because this would certainly be a good time to take stock of public sentiment regarding Brexit. A new major poll from YouGov – commissioned by Best For Britain – now shows a huge swell of support for the UK to rejoin the EU.
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Stick that on the side of a red bus…
It’s the latest in the long line of surveys which capture a fed-up feeling among an increasing number of Brits, 10 years after the UK voted to leave the trading bloc in a controversial and consequential referendum. However, it feels like there’d be a very different outcome if another vote was held today.
The new poll surveyed upwards of 11,000 voters, from 628 constituency seats. Participants were asked to identify which EU relationship they want the British government to propose, with a major UK-EU now on the horizon. Among the seven options, one proved more popular than most.
Regaining EU membership (35%) topped the chart by a comfortable margin, almost doubling the vote share of the second-most popular option – which is to maintain the government’s current ‘EU reset’ policies. Fewer than one in six respondents wanted to ‘loosen ties’ with the Union.
Out of 628 constituencies, 624 ‘would vote to rejoin the EU’
And, when these votes were split by constituency, a rather unignorable consensus forms. In all but four of the 628 seats, rejoining the EU emerged as the most backed option – essentially meaning that more than 99% of constituencies in the country, based on this sample size, would vote to REVERSE Brexit.
Funnily enough, the four constituencies which wouldn’t want the UK to rejoin the EU – Ashfield, Clacton, Great Yarmouth and Boston – all have MPs who stood for Reform in the last General Election. What’s more, seven of the top 10 most ‘pro-EU seats’ were based in Scotland.
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‘Vote to rejoin the EU would ‘see off Reform threat’
Tom Brufatto is the Policy and Research Director for Best for Britain. He believes that an offer to rejoin the UK would help the electorate ‘see off the radical threat’ posed by Reform, further stating that undoing Brexit in its current form would result in some huge economic benefits.
“Voters in virtually every single British constituency now back the UK restoring our place at the heart of Europe as their top choice on UK-EU relations, offering progressive politicians of all parties a roadmap to galvanise their support and see off the radical right threat from Reform UK.
“It’s no wonder, when independent economic research sets out how membership could boost our economy by some £92bn, at the very least, funding the redistributive growth agenda Andy Burnham has staked his premiership on.” | Tom Brufatto