{"id":523264,"date":"2025-10-23T22:51:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/523264\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:51:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:51:16","slug":"four-out-of-five-voters-who-say-brexit-has-been-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/523264\/","title":{"rendered":"Four out of five voters who say Brexit has been a\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly two thirds of Brits believe Brexit<\/a> has been a failure <\/a>\u2013 and they mainly blame Boris Johnson<\/a>, a survey has revealed.<\/p>\n

Despite slogans on Leave campaign buses claiming \u00a3350million was being sent each week to the European Union,<\/a> most also believe the UK\u2019s exit has failed because of the damage it has done to the economy.<\/a><\/p>\n

The new figures, part of a major report to be unveiled on Friday, come just days after Rachel Reeves warned Brexit<\/a> had an even bigger impact on the economy<\/a> than critics predicted. <\/p>\n

(UK Covid-19 Inquiry)<\/p>\n

Ministers have increasingly blamed the dire state of the nation\u2019s finances on the decision to leave the EU, as the chancellor prepares for a Budget later this month in which she is widely predicted to have to either raise taxes or break her fiscal rules.<\/a><\/p>\n

Of the 62 per cent who say Brexit has been a failure, 8 in 10 (80 per cent) point the finger of blame at Boris Johnson, who before he became prime minister was a high profile Leave campaigner. In 2019, he won a huge majority in a snap general election to \u201cget Brexit done\u201d.<\/p>\n

Just 7 in 10 (69 per cent) said they hold Nigel Farage responsible. <\/p>\n

Of the nearly two thirds who say Brexit has been a failure, 57 per cent point to the damage it caused to the economy, the polling of 4,368 adults by YouGov, commissioned by Best for Britain, found. <\/p>\n

Naomi Smith, the chief executive of Best for Britain, said: \u201cPolitics is finally catching up with both public opinion and economic reality. No one serious still argues that Brexit has been anything but an abject failure – pushing up prices for consumers and bureaucratic costs for businesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe chancellor<\/a> has made the important first step of acknowledging the scale of the damage, and now the government must follow her accurate assessment to progress the areas of EU-UK cooperation set out in May at pace to get household costs down and chart the path for meaningful economic growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has warned that Brexit<\/a> will have a negative impact on the UK\u2019s economic growth \u201cfor the foreseeable future\u201d, highlighting a decline in the UK\u2019s potential growth rate from 2.5 per cent to 1.5 per cent over the past 15 years.<\/p>\n

The Vote Leave<\/a> campaign infamously claim that Brexit<\/a> would mean \u00a3350m a week going to the NHS<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly two thirds of Brits believe Brexit has been a failure \u2013 and they mainly blame Boris Johnson,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[1500,802,748,4044,2000,299,5187,1699,5686,4884,5681,12,5683,5682,5684,5685,16,15,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-523264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-daily-news","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-global-news","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-inkl","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-news-app","21":"tag-news-headlines","22":"tag-news-today","23":"tag-today-news","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115425935022977844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523264","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=523264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}