Majority back new vote on Brexit deal
A majority of voters now back a second EU referendum on the terms of the UK’S Brexit deal, the latest polling suggests.
In a regular Yougov poll asking whether voters thing there should be a referendum “once the Brexit negotiations are complete and the terms of Britain’s exit from the EU have been agreed”, 42 per cent said their should, while 40 per cent said there should not, the first majority in favour of revisiting the 2016 result.
The proportion of respondents who said they didn’t know was 18 per cent.
It comes as separate polling confirmed voters’ scepticism about Theresa May’s embattled plan for leaving the EU, whose central pillar of a customs partnership with Brussels was rejected by chief negotiator Michel Barnier on Thursday.
An IPSOS-MORI poll found that only a quarter of Britons believe the Prime Minister will secure a good Brexit deal.
Some 72 per cent of respondents said they lack confidence in her ability to reach a good deal with Brussels, the worst rating ever in the pollster’s regular political monitor.
Only 29 per cent of those surveyed said the Prime Minister’s Chequers Brexit blueprint would be a good for the UK, with 47 per cent saying it would be bad and 19 per cent saying they did not know.
Mrs May’s personal approval rating also hit a new low over the past month, reaching a net score of minus 32.
Jeremy Corbyn has a net score of minus 30.
Hailing the rise in support for a new EU referendum, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie called on the SNP to “come off the fence and support a vote on the deal”.