May 23. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Regret over Brexit has reached record levels as a new poll shows that only 9 per cent of Britons consider the country’s exit from the European Union more of a success than a failure.
According to a YouGov poll, 62 percent — including 37 percent of those who voted to leave the EU — have described the move as a failure.
The public opinion firm claims that the “Bregret” has reached new highs, as the number of Britons who say it was right to vote to leave the European Union in 2016 has fallen to its lowest level, 31 percent. While almost double, 56 percent, think it was a wrong decision.
Thus, the number of voters who advocated leaving the European Union who currently think this was a mistake has reached its highest level to date, at 22 percent, as reported by Sky News.
This poll came days after former UK Independence Party (UKIP) and Brexit leader Nigel Farage criticized the government’s handling of Brexit, saying the plan had failed and the economy “has not benefited.”
“We have not benefited financially from Brexit when we could have. What Brexit has shown, I fear, is that our politicians are as useless as the commissioners in Brussels were,” he declared.
For its part, Downing Street denied that the plan to leave the European Union had “failed”, as Farage insisted, and stressed its benefits.
However, the result of this survey suggests that the British agree with the statements of the eurosceptic leader, since the majority of them – 75 percent – would point to the Conservative Party saying that “Brexit had the potential to be a success, but its implementation by this and/or previous governments made it a failure”:
