{"id":557720,"date":"2025-11-08T18:01:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/557720\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T18:01:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:01:27","slug":"majority-of-people-not-proud-of-post-brexit-britain-new-survey-reveals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/557720\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of people not proud of post-Brexit Britain, new survey reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The majority of Britons<\/a> do not feel proud of their country<\/a>, a new survey has revealed.<\/p>\n

The wide-ranging polling on attitudes<\/a> also suggested that people increasingly believe the UK<\/a> is divided, that so-called culture wars<\/a> exist, and that life was better in the past.<\/p>\n

Researchers from King’s College London (KCL) said a \u201cfrightening increase in the sense of national division\u201d that began post-Brexit<\/a> appears to have \u201cmorphed into\u201d party political and other splits around immigration and \u201cculture wars\u201d.<\/p>\n

The findings, which are from the college’s policy institute and pollster Ipsos, showed that less than half of Britons now have a sense of pride in their country, falling from 56 per cent to 46 per cent in the past five years.<\/p>\n

When it comes to a feeling of division in the UK generally, 84 per cent of people said they feel this way, up from 74 per cent in 2020.<\/p>\n

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Exactly half of respondents say they believe the culture in the UK is changing too fast (PA)<\/p>\n

Exactly half of people said they believe the culture in the UK is changing too fast, up from just over a third (35 per cent) five years ago, while a similar amount (48 per cent) say they would like their country to be \u201cthe way it used to be\u201d. This is up from around a quarter (28 per cent) in 2020, and the findings showed a rise across all age groups.<\/p>\n

Professor Bobby Duffy, director of the policy institute at KCL, said: \u201cThis latest study shows a frightening increase in the sense of national division and decline in the UK in just a few years. We\u2019ve seen steep rises in the beliefs that the UK is divided, that \u2018culture wars\u2019 are real and that things were better in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

The poll also suggested that 86 per cent of people now feel there is tension between immigrants and people born in the UK \u2013 up from 74 per cent in 2023 and marking a new high.<\/p>\n

And the findings show public opinion on transgender rights has \u201cshifted significantly\u201d, researchers said, with those saying these rights have \u201cgone too far\u201d more than doubling since 2020 \u2013 now at 39 per cent, up from 17 per cent.<\/p>\n

The view has become more prominent among all age groups, and while fewer than a fifth (19 per cent) of 16-to 24-year-olds feel this way, this has more than doubled in the past five years, up from 9 per cent in 2020.<\/p>\n

Overall, 19 per cent of all those asked said they felt transgender rights have not gone far enough in the UK, down from 31 per cent in 2020.<\/p>\n

The polling of 4,027 people aged 16 and older in August came four months after the Supreme Court ruling, which said the words \u201cwoman\u201d and \u201csex\u201d in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, almost half (48 per cent) of the public said they consider being described as \u201cwoke\u201d as being an insult, rather than a compliment \u2013 up from under a quarter (24 per cent) in 2020.<\/p>\n

Woke is defined by the Cambridge dictionary as being \u201caware, especially of social problems such as racism and inequality\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Duffy said the UK had lived through \u201can incredibly divisive period around the EU referendum and its aftermath\u201d and that division appears to have \u201cmorphed into party political and other splits, with attitudes to immigration and the speed of culture change more generally at the heart of them\u201d.<\/p>\n

Gideon Skinner, senior director of UK politics at Ipsos, said: \u201cPerceptions of political and cultural disharmony are growing, reflecting a society grappling with nostalgia, the pace of change, and growing tensions over immigration, and with polarised views over what terms like \u2018woke\u2019 signify.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he cautioned that: \u201cOn many issues there is no clear consensus, with a need to understand the differences under the topline figures; it should not be forgotten that many people are not on the extremes in their views.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The majority of Britons do not feel proud of their country, a new survey has revealed. The wide-ranging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,177361,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,177362,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-557720","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-culture-wars","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-national-division","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115515391934837245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557720","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=557720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}