Brexit: 'Half of readers' believe Britain would be better off in Europe

Nearly half of people who took a survey on the News Letter's website think we would be better off economically in Europe, and a majority want to stick with the Single Market.
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A new Brexit survey shows 48% of News Letter readers believe Britain will be better off economically inside Europe. As well as this 51% said Britain should continue to be part of the single European market.

The figures show a split between those who voted Leave and those who voted Remain in the referendum. Among Leave voters, 8% think Britain is better off economically in Europe, while one in six of these voters (17%) think we should continue to be part of the Single Market.

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Remain voters are, unsurprisingly, much more likely to think continuing close ties with Europe is a good idea, with 85% saying Britain is better off economically inside Europe and 85% saying we should continue to be part of the Single Market.

Two-thirds of those surveyed on the site (67%) said they were not happy with the status of Brexit negotiations at the moment, with just one in six (18%) saying they were happy (the rest weren’t sure).

Regardless of how those surveyed voted in the referendum, they were more likely to be unhappy than happy with the way negotiations are going.

Among those who said they voted Leave, 49% are unhappy with the status of negotiations compared to 30% who were happy. More than three-quarters of those who voted Remain (83%) said they were unhappy, compared to 5% who said they were happy.

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However, most of those surveyed said they would still stick with how they voted - 87% of Leave voters and 91% of Remain voters. Leave voters were more likely to say they would not vote in the same way now, with one in 14 Leave voters saying they’d act differently (7%) compared to one in 18 Remain voters (5%).

Of those surveyed, 55% said customs controls at the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland would not be acceptable.

Among Leave voters, 65% said customs controls would be acceptable, with 27% saying they would not be acceptable, while 82% of Remain voters said such controls would be unacceptable.

The study, run in partnership with Google Surveys, was completed online by roughly 1,500 people who visited the News Letter website, and ran from roughly the start of the month to last Friday.