Most voters say Brexit has gone badly: New poll finds

More than six in 10 voters say Brexit has either gone badly or worse than they expected, a new poll has found a year after the United Kingdom left the European Union.

Forty-two percent of people who voted Leave in 2016 had a negative view of how Brexit has turned out, according to the Opinium survey for The Observer.

The survey comes a week after Lord Frost, the minister in charge of Brexit, resigned from Boris Johnson’s government.

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The poll also found that while 26% of Leave supporters believe it had gone worse than they expected, 16% of people who voted for Brexit said they had expected it to go badly and had been proved right.

Meanwhile, 86% of people who voted in favor of remaining said it had gone badly or worse than they expected. Overall, only 14% of all voters were satisfied and said that Brexit had gone better than expected.

Adam Drummond, of Opinium, described as the most striking the fact that Leavers were now more hesitant about the virtues of Brexit than previously.

“For most of the Brexit process any time you’d ask a question that could be boiled down to ‘is Brexit good or bad?’ you’d have all of the Remainers saying ‘bad’ and all of the Leavers saying ‘good’ and these would cancel each other out,” he said.

“Now what we’re seeing is a significant minority of Leavers saying that things are going badly or at least worse than they expected. While 59% of Remain voters said, ‘I expected it to go badly and think it has’, only 17% of Leave voters said, ‘I expected it to go well and think it has’.

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“Only 7% of Remainers think Brexit has gone better than expected versus 26% of Leavers saying it has gone worse than expected. So instead of two uniformly opposing blocs, the Remain bloc are still mostly united on Brexit being bad while the Leave bloc are a bit more split.”

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