{"id":379990,"date":"2025-08-28T09:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/379990\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:41:14","slug":"uk-economy-declined-since-leaving-eu-say-most-brits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/379990\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Economy Declined Since Leaving EU Say Most Brits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly three-quarters of Brits think the UK economy<\/a> has got worse since Brexit<\/a>, according to a new poll.<\/a><\/p>\n

Nine years after the country narrowly voted to leave the bloc, it seems Brits are far from convinced by life outside of the EU\u2019s<\/a> single market.<\/p>\n

A new survey <\/a>has revealed that 71% of voters think the UK economy has worsened since 2016, compared to just 12% who think it has improved.<\/p>\n

With focus groups conducted by More in Common for Best for Britain \u2013 and carried out in April and May \u2013 found 77% say the cost of living has got worse since the UK left the EU.<\/p>\n

A further 58% say UK businesses face greater difficulties accessing European markets as a result of Brexit.<\/p>\n

The pollsters also noted that Brits are now in favour of working more closely with Europe \u2013 as long as it improves the cost of living and trade opportunities.<\/p>\n

A majority (54%) \u2013 including 44% who voted Leave and 44% who said they would currently back Reform UK \u2013 say they would be in favour of working more closely with Europe on areas like food, trade standards and defence.<\/p>\n

But a third of Brits (32%) also believe that protecting Britain\u2019s sovereignty should be a red line for future negotiations with the EU.<\/p>\n

The findings come as the government looks to strengthen trade ties with the EU \u2013 a move which has infuriated ardent Brexit campaigners like Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.<\/a><\/p>\n

His party, Reform<\/a> UK, has vowed to rip up the UK\u2019s current reset agreement with the EU, and accused Labour of \u201ctrying to betray Brexit\u201d by aligning with EU rules on trade without parliamentary debate. <\/p>\n

Labour minister for EU relations, Nick Thomas-Symonds, said<\/a> Farage would \u201ctake Britain backwards\u201d if he got into power.<\/p>\n

Even so, Reform currently<\/a> has an eight-point lead over Labour in the opinion polls<\/p>\n

More in Common\u2019s executive director, Luke Tryl, explained: \u201cNearly a decade after leaving the EU, many Britons want the government to take a pragmatic approach to working with Europe, supporting closer cooperation when it delivers clear economic benefits \u2013 especially in areas like the cost of living and food prices.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time, concern about sovereignty remains. The country is split on what closer ties with Europe might mean for the UK\u2019s ability to make its own decisions on regulatory standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cRather than wanting politicians to re-litigate Brexit, most want the focus to be on practical discussions that work out how to balance the economic benefits of a closer relationship with protecting national control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Labour promised to put economic growth at the heart of its government, but it\u2019s been a mixed picture during the party\u2019s first 13 months in power.<\/p>\n

The economy grew by 0.4% in June, but contracted by 0.3% in April and 0.1% in May, according to the Office for National Statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly three-quarters of Brits think the UK economy has got worse since Brexit, according to a new poll.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,1700,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-379990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115105738501552575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379990","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=379990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}