New polling released today by Ipsos shows that 50% of the UK public would support the UK joining a pan-European customs area.
Just 12% said they would oppose such a membership.
After the Prime Minister met with EU leaders on Monday evening, the results were revealed at a conference in Brussels on Tuesday morning.
It also showed that:
- Nearly half of Britons (47%) now consider Europe to be most important to Britain. in 2019 the figure was 39%.
- Nearly half (48%) of Britons said that leaving the EU had negatively impacted their daily lives. In 2021 the figure was 28%.
- Improving trade was the main priority (32%) in Britain’s future relationship with the EU.
Comment from European Movement UK
Dr Mike Galsworthy, Chair, European Movement UK, said:
“This latest polling tells a very similar story to last week’s polling by YouGov – that the British public is becoming increasingly fed up with the negative impacts that leaving the EU is having on our country. Being outside the European Single Market is costing our economy £115 billion a year, and the public finances more than £40 billion a year. The OBR predicts a 15% hit to the trade intensity of our economy.
“We have seen soaring import costs, increased workforce shortages and reams of new red tape. No wonder exports to the EU by our small businesses are down by 30%, and 20,000 small firms across UK have stopped all exports to the EU. Meanwhile, LSE research shows a £27bn fall in goods exports to the EU – enough to fill a fiscal black hole or two. Politicians must now face the facts – five years on, Brexit is still an ongoing accident, and its damage is far from over.”
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