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This week rather than bringing you a chat with on regretful leave voter we have decided to do something different. We bring you audio clips from TV, radio and local campaigners of regretful leave voters that we have been made aware of since the Government's brexit deal was announced.
0:0029:48 In this episode we once again bring you a compilation of various clips of regretful leavers talking about it in the media. Brexit is not the will of the people. It's ok to change your mind.
The only way the UK can gain economic growth is by 'rejoining the EU,' says LBC caller.
Paul Routledge on the everyday nightmare that Brexit is fast becoming, and now with EU business decreasing sharply, what's next for the Tories - aka the Brexit Party?
Leave voters insist Brexit hasn't worked out how they were promised seven years on from historic referendum.
YouGov polling is the latest in a rising trend to show a majority in favour of rejoining the European Union.
A majority of Britons are not satisfied with the post-Brexit trade agreement that Boris Johnson secured with the European Union, according to a survey that provides the first detailed insight into the nation's attitude towards the deal since it took effect.
As the UK marks three years since leaving the EU, only voters in three areas do not regret quitting the bloc.
How has the UK evolved over seven years to become a country that again favours being in the EU? And when can we hope to rejoin?
In a searingly honest mea culpa, the political columnist has recognised his folly. He hopes others will now do the same
The British government on Sunday denied a report that it is seeking a “Swiss-style” relationship with the European Union that would remove many of the economic barriers erected by Brexit — even as it tries to improve ties with the bloc after years of acrimony.
A distraught Brexit voter is comforted by James O'Brien, who tells him not to blame himself because of the 'sheer weight of influence and bogus information' inflicted on him which contributed to his decision.
"So many MPs have changed their minds about policies, is there a possibility that the country has changed it's mind about Brexit?"
PM wishes he submitted pro-Remain column before referendum, according to Guto Harri.
More people think Brexit is wrong than right for the first time since the referendum, according to a Times poll which shows the Tory lead ahead of the election has shrunk in the past week.
Up to this point, Brexit is turning out to be an unmitigated disaster for production agriculture in the UK.
But six years on, reality is kicking in and some of the most ardent Brexiteers - including the heads of major UK employers - are starting to change their tune.
‘The project is probably now unsalvageable’, says former PM’s old employer. / The Conservatives have made such a “hash” of Brexit that the project is probably “unsalvageable”, according to Boris Johnson’s favourite newspaper.
Voters have concluded that leaving the EU was a mistake because all the government can offer is damage limitation.
More than half of Brits think that Brexit is "going badly," according to new polling — and the number of people with that opinion is growing.
Results suggest Leave voters disillusioned with the ‘taking back of control they were promised’.
New research from YouGov has found that "Bregret is rife", with 46% of people wanting a vote on re-joining in the next decade.
Giles Merritt assesses British remorse for leaving the EU, and suggests that Brussels should weigh the advantages of a constructive new relationship.
Seven years on from the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, more Brexiteers than ever regret their decision.
It is fuelling rising support for rejoining the EU, with almost half (49 per cent) of voters now wanting to reverse Brexit – the highest level recorded by BMG Research in surveys for i.
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...
An audience member surprised BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce on Thursday evening when they revealed they did vote for Brexit – and said Britain was now facing the dire consequences of leaving the EU.
Lord Heseltine said it is time to stop ‘hiding from the damage’ caused by Brexit. / Lord Heseltine has called for Britain to “recreate our position at the centre of Europe” after the failure of 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.
On 23 June, it will be seven years since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. Two years before the Brexit referendum, Clacton-on-Sea saw its MP defect to Brexit-supporting UKIP. How do people in the resort feel about it all now?
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.
“Brexit has caused us enormous problems with recruitment,” the TV presenter bemoaned after facing a lack of EU staff for her own hotel.
A British fisherman has expressed his regret over voting for Brexit during an appearance on Danish TV.
Confidence in Brussels has shot up in latest sign of Brexit regret. / The British public has more confidence in the EU than the UK parliament, a new survey has found in a remarkable turnaround of a trend lasting decades.
As evidence mounts of the long-term harm being inflicted on the U.K. economy by Brexit, the government is coming under pressure to acknowledge the elephant in the room.
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 was a massive failure of leadership," Guy Verhofstadt said. "But in a democracy people can call upon new leadership to undo the mistakes of the past."
Four years since the UK left the EU, the leave-voting constituency Barking says they’ve seen no benefit from Brexit.
Most people think Brexit has gone badly, a UK survey finds, and Johnson has left behind a mess of problems for a new PM.
If there was a vote to leave the EU tomorrow, only 36 per cent would vote out - compared to 52 per cent in 2016.
A huge surge in support to rejoin the EU has been recorded in October - has the bubble finally burst for Brexit and its backers?
Seven years after the EU Referendum, Brexit is finding it increasingly difficult to retain its 2016 supporters let alone recruit new ones
Have voters changed their minds about leaving the EU, and has Brexit fundamentally reshaped our political identities.
It comes as Brexit means fall in crops and fewer British products in supermarkets. / Leaving the EU has led to a decline in crops and fewer home-grown products on the shelves of Britain’s supermarkets, farming chiefs have warned, reports The Independent.
"I voted to leave but not knowing the whole story. And now if I was to vote again, I'd vote to remain, personally, from an agricultural point of view."
Brixham-based fish merchant Ian Perkes told Financial Times that he “never looked at implications of the paperwork” that a vote to leave would bring.
LBC caller who once voted for UKIP told Shelagh Fogarty he now "deeply regrets" the decision and votes for Liberal Democrats.
As the economic harm that it has done becomes ever clearer, all but the most die-hard Tory Brexiteers are increasingly prepared to admit that Brexit was a mistake. Trade with the Europe has slumped, productivity is down, and there are 4,000 fewer European doctors working in the NHS.
Almost three years after the United Kingdom's formal departure from the European Union, voters are turning sour on the 2016 decision to leave. A recent poll showed that 57% of voters view the departure from the EU as a mistake compared to the 52% who voted for the original Brexit referendum. So what changed?
Many of those who backed leaving the EU now admit that it has damaged Britain. Are we near a tipping point?
‘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’
Sarah from Christchurch voted Leave to express her anger at ‘the establishment’. She has since changed her mind after seeing the government’s shambolic negotiations. She is a RemainerNow and would like to have another say to vote to Remain.
If we are to leave the European Union we want a sensible Brexit. There’s no chance of that just now. / "Brexit has paralysed the system. It has turned Britain into a laughing stock. And it is certain to make us poorer and to lead to lower incomes and lost jobs."
Media outlets around the world have been documenting Britain’s Brexit ‘bregret’ as economic headwinds hit our shores.
Many of the leave voters George Llewelyn met in 2021 were dissatisfied Eurosceptics who are now ardent rejoiners. How did it happen?
The heartbreaking moment a Leave voter broke down in tears and apologised for backing Brexit is at number four in James O'Brien's top 10.
A “RECORD high” number of people believe Brexit was a mistake, according to the latest polling.
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.
Strong support for closer EU relationship as Labour pledges to leave deal in place.
Lance Forman, who was a Brexit Party MEP, seemed to forget about a time not so long ago when things were not going so well post-Brexit.
A majority of the public is unhappy about the post-Brexit trade agreement that Boris Johnson secured with the EU, a new survey has found.
An increasingly large majority of Brits now think Brexit was a mistake, new polling suggests. / After years of wrangling an exit deal with the EU and the ongoing Northern Ireland Protocol dispute, 57% of the country now believes leaving the bloc was an error.
Bristol West found to be constituency most regretful of the referendum result.
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.
Polls show average annual gap between those who believe it was ‘wrong’ to vote to Leave compared to ‘right’ has risen to double digits for the first time. / A growing number of Britons say the UK was wrong to Brexit, according to a Standard analysis of more than 200 polls.
More voters are beginning to regret the current form of Brexit and would be willing to accept EU rules in return for better trade ties, a poll has revealed.
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.
YouGov tracker data records the highest levels of Bregret among Leave voters to date.
I first used the word “Brexit” a decade ago, in 2012, and more recently coined “Brexiternity” – the title for my last book on the subject in 2019. Now it seems the new modish word is “Bregret”. It has become impossible to find anyone writing, at least in the posh papers, who is not reporting on the Brexit regretters.
Public has ‘right to know reality of what Brexit has done’, say campaigners after petition passes threshold. / The Conservative government has previously stated that the consequences of Brexit is not “an appropriate subject for a public inquiry”.
An MPs’ report on the impact of Brexit on fishing has reignited a fierce debate over whether the UK’s departure from the EU was good or bad for the sector.
The wider public now think Britain was wrong to leave the European Union by 56% to 32%.
Survey finds 33% of Conservatives believe costs outweighing benefits. / Conservative party voters are losing faith in the idea of Brexit benefits and opportunities, a new poll suggests.
An Opinium poll also found that 42% of people who voted Leave in 2016 had a negative view of how it had turned out.
YouGov poll finds 32 per cent of Britons think it has turned out ‘very badly’.
Journalist Peter Oborne admitted to James that he had made a mistaken analysis. Now he thinks that fellow Brexiteers must swallow their pride and think again.
Articles by people who have switch their views to Remain since the referendum.
The average annual gap between those who believe it was “wrong” to vote to Leave compared to “right” is almost double what it was last year.
A SURVEY of Leave voters who have changed their minds about Brexit has revealed their reasons for the change of heart.
January marked the 18th straight month that a majority of British people, when asked by YouGov, responded that the 2016 vote to leave the European Union was "wrong."
New polling has shown the levels of Brexit regret in the country has increased again.
A record high percentage of Brits now say they believe Brexit was a mistake, a poll shows.
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.
Grays, a town near London, voted overwhelmingly in favour of Brexit. But three years after severing ties with the EU, some are feeling remorse as the country lurches from one crisis to another.
We're Remainer Now - a group giving voice to those who voted Leave in the 2016 EU Referendum who have changed their minds and are now supporting a People's Vote on Brexit.
Richard Corbett, former Labour MEP, linguist, author and fluent and well-informed speaker will explain the background to Boris Johnson's Brexit deal and discuss the fallout. There are numerous consequences of Brexit which are not receiving sufficient publicity. Leaving the EU came at a huge cost to the UK economically, culturally and in terms of our standing in the world.
Something odd is happening with Brexit. Since June 2016 polls have all shown a nation split 50-50 on its merits. But now as we see what the reality of Brexit means there is a shift.
South Holland and the Deepings is one of just three parts of the country where voters don't show regret over the Brexit vote, according to a new poll.
Even after years of division and vitriol, it seems like Britain still needs to talk about Brexit. / More than six years after voting to leave the European Union, the UK is facing a prolonged recession and a deep cost-of-living crisis. Last week’s Autumn Statement heralded years of higher taxes and cuts to public spending.
A growing number of British people believe it was wrong for the UK to have voted to leave the EU, according to a new poll, which found that Brexit regret is at its highest level since the 2016 referendum.
With large-scale, pro-EU protests set to hit London next month, UK citizens seem to have lost patience with Brexit.
By contrast, 32 per cent thought Brexit has been going “very badly”, and 21 per cent said it turned out “fairly badly”.
This is all highly ironic as Polizzi was a prominent Leave supporter during the 2016 EU referendum. “I’m like the turkey who voted for Christmas,” she concedes now.
i polling shows Brexit voters may be losing faith in the project.
May and her Brexit-backing band have, up until now, always been able to count on the majority being in their corner.
Many who voted for the UK's exit from the EU now want back in, according to polls.
A YouGov poll a week after Nigel Farage said leaving the EU has "failed" shows more people than ever express "Bregret".
Apparently this Brexit is not the one Leave voters wanted, and is certainly not what Remainers wanted, but it’s the one we’re all having to live with.
David Davis once said ‘if a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy’. Well Mr Davis, I wish to change my mind.
Nadeem Ahmed also warned leaving EU had triggered racist attacks and backed second referendum, in embarrassment for Boris Johnson.
A caller into James O’Brien’s LBC radio show who said he was Tory voter brought listeners to tears after he revealed when things changed for him on Brexit.
More than two years after Brexit, British fishermen are angry. They were promised more control over fishing rights in British waters, but what they’ve gotten is reduced income. Many of them voted Leave, but now they feel they’ve been let down.
According to a poll carried out by the Savanta data research group, more people in the UK believe Brexit has damaged the country's economy and influence on the world stage with indicators pointing towards a growing appetite for a second referendum on EU membership.
However, disenchantment with Brexit has been one of the most notable trends of 2022 with a feeling that it has not lived up to the promises made at the time of the referendum. / Two thirds or 65% of British people think Brexit has gone badly compared to just 21% who think it has gone well according to an Opinium survey in early December.
A persistent majority of Britons think Brexit was a mistake, one of the UK's leading pollsters said Wednesday, forecasting near-certain defeat for the Conservatives at the next election.
“I’m depressed. I’m properly, really depressed. I can’t sleep.”
Voters in the area of Derbyshire that decided by the largest margin to leave the European Union in 2016 say they feel lied to by those who advocated Brexit, and life in the town has got worse since the referendum.
Voters in Boston – the place with the highest Leave vote in the UK – have expressed regret about backing Brexit.
KentLive conducted a straw poll in Dover of 50 people asking how they would vote if they could repeat 2016.
Those who have changed their mind are notably younger than those who still think it was right to vote to leave the EU.
British sentiment toward leaving the European Union appears to be changing. As the United Kingdom marks a year since its Brexit referendum vote, a new opinion poll shows that a majority now wants to stay. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant gets a range of reactions as the country faces its independent future.
Britons are twice as likely to say they are disappointed to have left the EU than pleased, an international survey has found.
Brexit is three years old and less popular than ever. More people are unhappy with Brexit outcomes to date, and pessimistic about the gains to come today than at any point in the Brexit process so far. “Rejoin” has opened up a double-digit lead over staying out in polls asking voters how they would choose in a second referendum on EU membership.
Six and a half years after voting to leave the European Union, three years after the formal departure, two years after signing a post-Brexit trade deal with Brussels and one month after installing its fourth prime minister since the 2016 referendum, Britain is caught in – what else? – another debate over Brexit.
Almost seven years and four prime ministers since the U.K. voted to leave the European Union, polling suggests public sentiment has turned against Brexit.
‘Greater pessimism’ about impact of Brexit, says pollster John Curtice. / Almost one in three Leave voters want the UK to have a closer post-Brexit relationship with the EU, new polling has found.
A 35-year-old graphic designer from Bristol told i he wishes he could ‘turn back time and vote Remain’.
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.
Manchester resident, 68, says she was lied to by politicians and would vote Remain if she got a second chance.
“If there wasn’t any Brexit, there wouldn’t be any issues,” he said. “We were getting on fine before that.”
Six years after the referendum, many Brexit supporters in Cheshire do not believe leaving the EU has delivered on their concerns.
On the third anniversary of Britain’s departure from the European Union, this caller says he blames himself and Boris Johnson for voting to leave. / A James O’Brien caller expressed his regret over voting to leave the EU back in 2016.
“Brexit has made this country a lot poorer, people a lot more divided, but no-one wants to talk about it anymore.”
British fishermen catch over fifty different species but unfortunately, British taste buds are largely restricted to salmon, cod, tuna and prawns. So 70% of British-caught fish is exported, mostly to EU customers. When Britain leaves the EU, British fishermen fear they could lose free access to their biggest market.

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