If a new referendum were held, a national poll shows Britons would vote to return to the EU – by a large margin.
A YouGov poll, conducted more than eight years after the Brexit vote, shows that Public support for rejoining the EU in a new hypothetical referendum was 59%. 41 percent of voters said they would oppose rejoining the EU.
The poll also found strong public support for Increasingly closer relations between the UK and the EU. On the other hand, public opinion polls clearly show that voters do not believe the newly elected Labour government has the mandate to try to return to the EU.
The Prime Minister’s hands are tied
Keir Starmer confirms this Labour will not seek to return to the EU.Or the single market or the customs union. The 61-year-old prime minister predicts that the UK will not return to the EU during his lifetime.
Public opinion research shows that for a majority of voters (51%), even a landslide Labour election victory does not give Starmer a mandate to rejoin the EU, with only a fifth saying the prime minister could decide to do so.
Keir Starmer, British Prime Minister. London, 6 August this year.
But opinion polls also show voter support. A closer relationship that does not involve returning to the EUOr the single market or the customs union.
Nearly half of Britons (45%) believe Starmer has a mandate to pursue this.The situation is slightly different in the case of voters who supported Britain’s exit from the European Union in 2016, where the mandate to seek closer relations was given to Starmer, with 36% rejecting it.
In his electoral program Labour has promised to renew trade and investment ties between the UK and the EU and push for a security deal.As part of his first trip abroad, David Lammy, the new Foreign Secretary, She visited Poland, Germany and Sweden to signal a reset in relations with European partners after a tense period of Conservative rule.
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