WE’D STILL VOTE LEAVE
No-deal fears fail to change minds
LEAVE would win again if the Brexit vote were rerun, despite fears over the economic carnage leaving the EU will cause.
A Sunday Mirror poll found eight in ten voters have not changed their minds since the 2016 referendum.
Four years ago 52 per cent voted to leave, with 48 per cent for remaining.
Now 50.4 per cent want out, with 49.6 per cent wishing to stay, just scraping a victory for the leavers.
The result is especially surprising as we teeter on the edge of a no-deal Brexit, amid dire warnings of chaos at the border and the costs to families.
The British Retail Consortium is warning of £3.1billion in import taxes, which would add an average 20 per cent to tariffs payable on food.
In a no-deal scenario, 7,000 of the 10,000 lorries arriving at Dover each day would be hit by long delays.
There are also likely to be shortages of fresh food, and six in ten medicines could be held up for three months.
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Mor More than one in three are filling their freezers as well as buying stores of medicines such as ibuprofen and paracetamol.
Some 30 per cent are buying lightbulbs and batteries, and 25 per cent are getting in supplies of long-life milk, bottled water and booze.
Nearly one in four voters think that Boris Johnson should quit as PM if he cannot pull off a deal, rising to 54 per cent among Remain supporters.
But 45 per cent think he should stay on regardless of the outcome of talks.
If there is a deal, MPs have been put on standby to return to Parliament this week. The EU Parliament has given negotiators a deadline of today.
But talks in Brussels have stalled again over how long it will take to bring in new fisheries rules.
The UK’s chief negotiator David Frost says that Britain must control its own fishing rights from day one.
EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier warned: “This is the moment of truth.
“There is the chance of a deal but the path is very narrow.”
But Cabinet Office boss Michael Gove said negotiations could continue right up until the new-year cut off.
Savanta ComRes interviewed 2,006 UK adults aged 18+ online between December 16 and 18.