Public support for Brexit is at an all-time low, according to a poll released Thursday by YouGov, which reflects that only 32 percent of Britons support the UK’s exit from the European Union, while 56 percent believe it was the wrong decision.
The survey would mark a major shift in opinion since June 2021, with one in five people regretting the UK’s formal exit from the EU. In the last 18 months, Brexit supporters have fallen from 88 percent to 70 percent, a record low.
Meanwhile, the number of people who voted to leave the EU and now think it was not the best decision has soared from 4 to 19 percent, according to the British channel Sky News.
These data are known after the UK Finance Minister, Jeremy Hunt, confirmed that the country expects a recession of 1.4 percent in 2023, so, to tackle the economic crisis, the Government has announced tax increases.
A former interest rate setter at the Bank of England said this week that Brexit is the main reason why the UK is now facing a new round of austerity, as it «significantly reduced the economy’s potential output» and «eroded business investment».
«The UK economy as a whole has been permanently damaged by the Brexit,» explained Michael Saunders, who is also an external member of the central bank’s monetary policy committee, in an interview with Bloomberg picked up by ‘The Guardian’ newspaper.
