SHOCK polling reveals Brexit under threat – staggering percentage of Brits want to rejoin and it’s only going up

Brits increasingly want to rejoin the EU in a hammer blow for Brexiteers, shocking polling has shown.

Analysis by think-tank Facts4EU in partnership with GB News shows 57 per cent of Brits want to rejoin our former bloc, with just 43 per cent wanting to stay out.

The research, generated via aggregating 250 polls over the last five years, charts public opinion towards Brexit, indicating a strong win for the rejoin campaign, many who now reside in the Cabinet.

It shows mixed opinion through 2020 and 2021, with the public broadly split on the issue, before Rejoin pull away in earnest from the summer of 2022.

Pro EU sentiment peaked in autumn of 2023, with almost 60 per cent of the public wanting to re-enter the EU, while just 41 per cent wanted to stay out.

In another worrying development for pro Brexit Brits, the young are ardently opposed to staying out and increasingly want Brexit reversed.

Pollsters Savanta most recent poll asked “If there was a referendum with the question, ‘Should the United Kingdom become a member of the European Union or not become a member of the European Union?’, how would you vote?”

It found 84 per cent would choose to join the EU while 16 per cent would opt to stay out

It comes after fears Labour will take the UK back into the EU fold intensified this week after the European Union’s new trade chief responsible for post-Brexit negotiations said “pan-European [customs] area is something we could consider”.

Joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention (PEM), which relaxes trade rules and supply chain constraints in and around Europe and North Africa, would not cross any government ‘red lines’, Downing Street indicated.

Labour, who have talked at length of a “reset” of relations with the EU, are said to be consulting businesses about the possible benefits of joining the PEM.

Under the current Brexit deal, UK goods sold to the EU are not subject to tariffs so long as they are made with a certain percentage of materials from Britain or the EU.

Joining the PEM could help businesses. A UK clothing manufacturer making garments from textiles it has sourced from Turkey – which is not in the EU – and selling them into the EU would pay tariffs.

But if the UK joined the PEM – of which Turkey is a member – the firm buying the products would not pay tariffs, for example.

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But critics have warned that any move towards EU trade agreements represent a slippery slope and could end up with Britain rejoining the bloc in all but name.

It comes after the EU expressed interest in a Youth Mobility Scheme for young Brits and EU nationals, something Labour did not categorically rule out.

The scheme, dubbed the ‘backpackers and baristas deal’, would relax rules for young EU nationals to travel to Britain and work, and vice versa for Brits heading to the continent.

As Brexit turns five years old today, proponents of Brexit point to the value of world trade that global Britain has started exploiting, as well the enormous potential for trade with Donald Trump’s America, so long as tariffs aren’t forthcoming.

Brexit Britain’s exports to the USA have grown 1.6 times faster than our exports to the EU since 2016, for example.

ONS figures show Britain’s trade with America has grown 70 per cent since the referendum, a growth rate 1.5 times greater than the growth rate of our exports to the EU in the same period.