{"id":218759,"date":"2025-06-27T13:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/218759\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T13:58:10","slug":"bregretful-majority-of-uk-citizens-today-would-vote-to-stay-in-the-eu-new-poll-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/218759\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Bregretful’: Majority of UK citizens today would vote to stay in the EU, new poll reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union in a close-call referendum. Nine years on, the nation appears to be “Bregretful”.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

In a survey conducted by YouGov, 56% of UK citizens said that with hindsight, they believed the decision to leave the bloc was wrong, compared with 31% who maintained that it was the right decision.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Asked whether Brexit has been more of a failure than a success, 61% said it had been more of a failure, 20% stated it was neither, while 13% argued it has been a success. <\/p>\n

Of those who were disappointed by Brexit, 88% placed the blame on the UK’s Conservative party, while 84% said former Prime Minister Boris Johnson was to blame.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

However, one in three of those surveyed also stated that the EU was responsible for Brexit’s shortcomings, including 60% of Leave voters. <\/p>\n

Despite these differences, the survey revealed that almost two-thirds of UK citizens now want a closer relationship with the European Union \u2013 a stance that is popular across all main parties (51-78%), as well as among Leave voters (60%). <\/p>\n

Although Brits believe that closer ties with the EU could be beneficial, the question of whether there should be a referendum on rejoining the bloc remains a thorny one.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UK citizens remain unconvinced about holding a referendum in the near future. However, over a longer 25-year period, 52% backed a referendum, compared to 26% who said they would still oppose the idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT In 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union in a close-call referendum. Nine years on,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[802,16844,748,393,1699,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-218759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-brexit-referendum","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114755685912899426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}