Britons are so disappointed with Brexit that a majority would vote to re-join the EU if the referendum was held tomorrow, a new poll has revealed.
The poll, conducted by YouGov, found that nearly six in ten Britons would vote in favour of rejoining the European Union if a referendum was held tomorrow. According to the YouGov poll, Britons would vote in favour of returning to the EU by a score of 59 per cent to 41 per cent.
It’s no surprise that the public want to return to the EU, given how much worse many feel after Brexit and how many of the Vote Leave campaign promises have failed to materialise.
Brexit has cost the UK £140bn and the country could be £311bn worse off by the middle of the next decade, according to new analysis.
The Cambridge Econometrics report, commissioned by City Hall, also showed the average Londoner became almost £3,400 worse off last year as a result of Brexit.
Following the Labour Party’s convincing victory in last month’s general election, Prime Minister Keir Starmer stressed that the new government would not return the country to the EU, the single market or the customs union and would not seek a closer relationship with Brussels while in power.
Britain’s exit from the EU, which was finalised in 2020, has been widely described as disastrous and costly for London. According to a Bloomberg report in February citing economists at Goldman Sachs, the exit reduced Britain’s real GDP by about 5 per cent compared to the performance of its economic peers and left it with an inefficient economy and a sharply rising cost of living due to reduced trade and weak business investment.
However, economists acknowledged that some of these problems could also be linked to the coronavirus pandemic.
