Survey says nearly 2.3 million Britons regret voting for Brexit

London, July 1: Nearly 2.3 million people in the UK regret voting for Britain’s exit (popularly called Brexit) from the European Union or EU in last week’s historic referendum, a trend which has come to be referred to as “Bregret”, a new survey said on Friday.

According to the “Opinium survey”, seven per cent of the people who voted to leave the EU now regretted their choice and may vote for remain instead if they had a choice.

When the survey’s findings are projected on to the statistics of the June 23 referendum, it cuts the Leave voteshare by 2.3 million, wiping out its majority and reversing the shock result in favour of Brexit, the survey said.

“The UK is just as divided post-referendumasitwasprereferendum with voters split on what the UK’s relationship withtheEUshouldbeafterwe leave and what the priority shouldbeintheensuingnegotiations,” Adam Drummond from Opinium Research told

Helsinki, July 1: Britain’s decision to quit the European Union was all it took to terrify Finnish voters, with more than two-thirds now affirming their loyalty to the bloc. A poll published on Thursday indicates a stunning shift in sentiment in Finland, the Nordic region’s only euro member. The Iltalehti poll shows that 69% of Finns don’t want a British style in-out vote. And if a referendum on EU membership were held, 68% would vote to stay. “Brexit seems to have had a strong impact on Finnish attitudes toward the EU,” said Teija Tiilikainen, director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. “Brexit has, in a concrete way, questioned the integrity of the EU for the first time.” For Finland, the result is that voters are now “seeking safety” in the status quo, he said. The poll, which carries a margin of error of 2.5 points, was conducted on June 28-29, just as Britain descended into political chaos and EU leaders met to discuss the fallout across the continent. Before the June referendum, Finland’s electorate had been more evenly split. In a March poll by Helsingin Sanomat, 43% of voting Finns wanted a referendum, with only 56% of the electorate wanting to stay in the EU. Bloomberg ‘The Independent’.

“Remain voters want the government to prioritise staying part of the EU’s single market while Leave voters are keen to end free movement between the UK and the EU and both priorities are likely to be mutually exclusive,” he said.

The survey also found that 3 per cent of those who voted Remain also regretted their choice.

More than half of those surveyed felt both the UK’s position and economy in the world had worsened following the referendum, but almost one in 10 said they did not believe the Brexit would be implemented. PTI