Theresa May has united Britain: everyone hates her Brexit deal
Remainers and Leavers are as divided as ever, but agree that the government has made a mess of things
POLITICIANS ON BOTH sides of the Brexit divide talk sanctimoniously of the “will of the people”. Leavers cite the 17.4m who voted to leave in June 2016, insisting too that most of them want a hard Brexit. Remainers claim opinion is changing, pointing to a march for a “people’s vote” in London on March 23rd that drew a purported 1m people, and a petition to revoke Article 50 which has attracted 6m signatories.
In truth, the will of the people is decidedly muddy, declares Sir John Curtice in his latest report for NatCen Social Research, based on survey data collected in early February. Since the autumn of 2016 NatCen has polled the same panel of voters, who like the country as a whole were divided in the referendum by 52% to 48% in favour of Leave.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline "The elusive will"
Britain March 30th 2019
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- Theresa May has united Britain: everyone hates her Brexit deal
- At a forthcoming by-election, potential MPs try to ignore Brexit
- Manchester shows how hard it is to integrate health and social care
- Brexit was scheduled for March 29th. Wasn’t it meant to be easy?
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- The end of Theresa May
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