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LONDON — Arch-Brexiteer Nigel Farage thinks Brexit has failed. Almost two-thirds of Brits seem to agree with him.
According to a YouGov poll released Tuesday, 63 percent of Britons now consider Brexit to have been more of a failure than a success — the latest piece of research which points to anti-Brexit sentiment in the U.K. three years on from the country’s formal exit from the EU.
Just 12 percent of those asked see Brexit as more of a success than a failure, while 18 percent said it was neither.
The gloomy view of Brexit brings Brits into line with Farage, one of the biggest advocates of the country’s departure from the European Union.
The former Brexit Party leader told the BBC in May that the U.K. had not benefited economically from leaving the bloc, blaming the ruling Conservatives for having “let us down very, very badly.”
The YouGov polling shows 58 percent of those who voted to leave the EU in 2016 now think the government is handling Britain’s exit from the bloc badly — a figure that rises to 83 percent among Remain voters.
No major U.K.-wide party currently advocates rejoining the European Union. Labour’s Keir Starmer — who once pushed to stop Brexit in the first place — has said the government’s “total mismanagement of Brexit” is contributing to a number of crises in Britain.
Although some of his frontbench team advocate a closer relationship with the European Union, Starmer has vowed not to take Britain back into either the single market or a customs union.
