57% of Britons Say Brexit Was Wrong, YouGov Finds After EU Exit in January 2020

Britons marked ten years since the British public voted to leave the European Union, with a YouGov study finding 57% now think the UK was wrong to vote to leave the EU and 30% still think it was right.

“London — A decade after the public referendum vote that led to the United Kingdom's "YouGov polling organization”

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The poll also found that after difficult negotiations the country left the EU in January 2020, following the historic referendum on June 23, 2016.

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In London, a pro-EU campaigner told France 24 that "Brexit has been an absolute disaster for the country," linking the outcome to "loss of freedom of movement" and "families being split up."

The same CBS News report said London Mayor Sadiq Khan warned, "The consequences 10 years on are worse than we feared," as the UK dealt with fallout from the vote and its economic impact.

YouGov’s qualitative interviews showed sovereignty as the most common reason for those who say Brexit was right, with one Leave voter saying, "We recovered sovereignty."

Other Leave voters tied the decision to border control and laws, with one saying, "I voted to leave the EU as I thought we would have more sovereignty over our borders & Laws."

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For those who now regret the outcome, the YouGov polling cited by Euronews found 56% say leaving was wrong while about 31% say it was right, and it reported that 61% answered Brexit was more of a failure than a success.

Euronews also said that among those disappointed by Brexit, 88% blamed the British Conservative Party and 84% attributed responsibility to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while one in three respondents said the EU was responsible for Brexit’s failures, including 60% of Leave supporters.

The sources describe growing calls for Britain to rejoin the EU, with NHKニュース saying calls for Britain to rejoin the regional bloc are growing and that people rallied in central London last Saturday for a "National Rejoin March."

“Furthermore, more than half of participants in a recent poll would like to vote in a new referendum on this issue within the next 25 years, according to YouGov”

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NHKニュース also said the current Labour government has no plans to rejoin the EU, but it agreed with the bloc to hold talks to simplify trade procedures for farm products as part of efforts to boost economic growth by removing market barriers.

CBS News reported that Nigel Farage, asked by BBC if he regretted Brexit, said it was "absolutely the right thing to do," and he argued the establishment did not accept the referendum result.

Looking ahead, Euronews said 52% of respondents would be in favor of a referendum over the next 25 years while 26% would oppose it, as the question of reintegration remained thorny and Brexit continued to split public opinion.