Nearly two-thirds of Britons feel Brexit, the United Kingdom’s 2016 exit from the European Union, has harmed the country’s economy. According to a new poll.
According to a Savanta poll conducted for The Independent daily, 61 percent of voters believe Britain’s economy has suffered as a result of the country’s exit from the EU.
According to the poll, which was conducted between February 10 and 12, only 13% of those polled believe Brexit has benefited the country’s economic status.
The poll also found that the majority of British feel Brexit has exacerbated the country’s deteriorating food-supply situation, with a “crippling” shortage of items in shops during the cost-of-living crisis.
That indicates an increase in anti-Brexit sentiment, as a comparable poll in January indicated that 56% said leaving the EU had harmed the country’s economy.
Conversely, 55% of respondents thought Brexit made things less available, while only 14% said it made them more available.
According to the survey, 47 percent of respondents claimed Brexit had harmed their personal finances, while only 13 percent thought the UK’s exit from the EU had increased their bank balance.
“This poll shows that there’s a strong perception that Brexit has not gone particularly well,” Savanta director Chris Hopkins was quoted as saying.
“While that may not equate directly to Brexit regret, we see little evidence in the perceptions of both Remainers and Leavers that Brexit has left the UK in a better state.”
According to Savanta, previous surveys showed there was a perception among the public that the Leave campaign had “told more lies” than the Remain campaign, both before and after the referendum in 2016.
“Perhaps it’s this sense of disingenuity that influences perceptions now, with some Leavers feeling that they were perhaps missold Brexit, even though they wouldn’t necessarily reverse their decision if a referendum came round again,” Hopkins added.
The growing regret over Brexit comes amid the deluge of data showing its painful impact on the country’s economy amid the rapidly worsening cost-of-living crisis in European countries.
In December, the Centre for European Reform (CER) found that Brexit had cost the UK a staggering £33bn in lost trade, investment and growth, and estimated that the tax loss from Brexit to be around £40bn.
