YouGov tracker data records the highest levels of Bregret among Leave voters to date.
As few as 13 per cent now say Brexit has been more of a success than a failure. / New polling released on the fourth anniversary of Britain’s departure from the European Union suggests the country is suffering from a painful bout of Brexit buyer’s remorse.
Brexit is not as secure as it appears [£]
01/02/2024
Voters have concluded that leaving the EU was a mistake because all the government can offer is damage limitation.
“I’m depressed. I’m properly, really depressed. I can’t sleep.”
Four years since the UK left the EU, the leave-voting constituency Barking says they’ve seen no benefit from Brexit.
Demand to reverse Brexit hits ‘highest level’ – almost TWO-THIRDS of Brits want to rejoin EU
14/10/2023
A huge surge in support to rejoin the EU has been recorded in October - has the bubble finally burst for Brexit and its backers?
Brexit polling: almost half of voters want new EU referendum in next decade, YouGov finds
15/08/2023
New research from YouGov has found that "Bregret is rife", with 46% of people wanting a vote on re-joining in the next decade.
Brexit: three in five export businesses see no positive effect of free-trade deals, government research finds
16/08/2023
The ability to sign free trade deals independently was touted as one of the main positives with Brexit, however agreements with Australia and New Zealand have been predicted to have limited economic impact.
‘I was fed a lie’: Brexit-voting retiree misses fresh ricotta and €500-a-month Italian cottage
14/08/2023
Manchester resident, 68, says she was lied to by politicians and would vote Remain if she got a second chance.
With large-scale, pro-EU protests set to hit London next month, UK citizens seem to have lost patience with Brexit.
UK expatriates have expressed regret at no longer being able to live in their houses in Europe after failing to obtain residency visas. None more so than those who voted for Brexit.
‘Most of my family voted to Remain. They think I was naïve, to put it politely,’ says 49-year-old Barny Gaveney. / ‘Thinking about what we had then and what we have now is soul-destroying’
‘I made a huge mistake’: Brexit-voting Briton can’t get visa to live in his £43,000 Italian home
07/08/2023
A 35-year-old graphic designer from Bristol told i he wishes he could ‘turn back time and vote Remain’.
Regret for leaving European Union reaches all time high with majority now wanting to rejoin group
01/08/2023
The UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016, but Brexit regret is now at an all time high, according to two separate polls.
‘I voted for Brexit and was told it wouldn’t affect expats – now I can’t live in my £13,000 Italian house’
28/07/2023
Greg Walter, from Winchester, says he feels betrayed as he and his partner are struggling to get visas to live in Italy. / A British couple in their sixties have bought a bargain €15,000 (£13,000) three-bedroom house in Italy for their retirement – but they cannot get a visa to live in it because of post-Brexit travel rules.
The British public now regrets Brexit more than at any other point since the referendum, according to two separate pollsters: YouGov and Deltapoll. Last week, YouGov recorded their highest ever share of voters, 57%, saying Brexit was a mistake. Just 32% thought Brexit was the correct decision. A majority of voters, 51%, now even wants to join the EU...
There’s a growing understanding in Britain that the country’s vote to quit the European Union, a decisive moment in the international rise of reactionary populism, was a grave error.
YouGov polling is the latest in a rising trend to show a majority in favour of rejoining the European Union.
More voters want to rejoin the EU than stay out, polling shows, as 57% blame it for inflation
02/07/2023
Latest set of polling shows ‘Bregret’ has become consolidated among the British public. / More adults believe the UK should rejoin the European Union than remain outside of it, new polling shows.
Have voters changed their minds about leaving the EU, and has Brexit fundamentally reshaped our political identities.
Seven years after the EU Referendum, Brexit is finding it increasingly difficult to retain its 2016 supporters let alone recruit new ones
A major study by the UK in a Changing Europe think tank and pollsters Public First lays bare 'bregrets' seven years after Britain voted to leave the EU.