Number of Britons who think Brexit was right decision hits new low, new YouGov poll shows
Number of Britons who think Brexit was right decision hits new low, new YouGov poll shows
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On the five year anniversary of Britain’s EU exit, new YouGov polling lays bare damning public sentiment on the decision. Five years after Brexit, the proportion of Brits who think it was right to leave the EU is at its lowest ever point since the referendum.
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Just three in ten Britons (30 per cent) say that it was right for the UK to vote to leave the EU, compared to 55 per cent who say it was wrong, a new YouGov poll has shown. This is the lowest proportion of the public saying that Britain was right to vote to leave since the pollster began asking this question in the aftermath of the referendum.
In January 2020, when Britain officially left the bloc after voting to leave four years earlier, 40 per cent of people said it was the right decision, while 47 per cent said it was wrong. Now, more than six in ten Britons (62 per cent) say that Brexit has so far been more of a failure, against just 11 per cent who feel that it has been more of a success, though a more noncommittal 20 per cent of Britons consider it to be neither a success nor failure.
Notably, even Leave voters are more likely to consider Brexit to have gone badly than well, with 32 per cent labelling it more of a failure so far, compared to 22 per cent describing it as more of a success. However, just one in six (18 per cent) Leave voters say that it was the wrong decision, with 66 per cent still saying it was the right choice.
