OUR POLL SENDS CLEAR
Fifth of voters want General Election now
VOTERS have delivered a clear message to Theresa May on leaving the European Union – get on with it or go.
Nearly one in five want the PM to call another general election following her big Brexit speech on Friday, according to a ComRes poll for the Sunday Mirror.
Meanwhile, 33 per cent want her to carry on negotiating with the EU to get the best deal.
And 22 per cent reckon she should tell Brussels chiefs we will leave with no deal.
Some 11 per cent say she should make way for another leader up for negotiating Brexit.
But 19 per cent want a new general election – rising to nearly a third in the 25-34 age group and a quarter in the Tories’ heartland of the South East.
A new election would give voters the chance to decide on allowing the PM to pursue her wishy-washy version of Brexit – or to put Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn in charge so he can negotiate a new customs union deal.
Mrs May has ruled that out because it would put tariff restrictions on trade deals the UK could strike with the rest of the world.
This shows people want us to get on with delivering a good Brexit for Britain NO10 SOURCE REACTS TO RESULTS OF OUR SURVEY
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But Mr Corbyn also got the thumbs down for his plan to tie Britain to a permanent customs union with 19 per cent saying he should rule it out and only 18 per cent backing him.
Men are almost three times more likely than women to be against joining such a union.
More than one in ten voters say Mr Corbyn should have committed Labour to a second Brexit referendum, rising to 17 per cent of North West voters and 23 per cent in Wales.
And 15 per cent want him to keep Britain in the EU single market, which means unlimited EU migration into the UK.
One in five Scots say they want to stay in the single market.
With less than eight months to go before Mrs May has to agree a deal with EU partners at October’s European Council summit, only eight per cent say they are more optimistic about Brexit now than they were a year ago.
A third have even become less optimistic.
On the BBC’s Andrew Marr show this morning, Mrs May will deny her vision of Britain outside the EU is blurred. She will say: “I was setting out an ambitious vision of the future economic partnership we want the UK to have with the EU once we’ve left. It was practically based, and therefore, a credible vision. I was being straight with people.” But clarifying Labour’s plan in Southampton yesterday, Shadow John McDonnell said: “We want a close, co-operative relationship after Brexit with our closest trading partners and longstanding allies. We don’t believe in pulling up the drawbridge at Dover and peering out at the rest of the world.”
If there was another referendum tomorrow on EU membership, Brexiteers are three points ahead of Remainers, almost the same as the 52-48 result in 2016.
Three in one hundred said they would spoil their ballot paper in protest at being asked the same question again.
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