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Brexit opponents and Brexit supporters in front of the Houses of Parliament in London in February 2019
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More than 60 percent of UK voters believe Brexit either went badly or worse than expected.
This is the result of a survey by the newspaper "The Observer" just under a year after Great Britain left the EU.
The poll by the opinion research institute Opinium also found that 42 percent of Britons who voted to leave in 2016 had a negative opinion about the course of Brexit so far. 26 percent of Brexit supporters said it went worse than expected, while 16 percent of those who voted for Brexit said they expected things to go bad and they were right.
Of those who voted to remain in the EU, 86 percent said that it went worse or worse than they expected. Overall, only 14 percent of those who voted said that Brexit went better than expected. Previously, when asked whether the Brexit process was going well, most Brexit supporters said “yes” and most Brexit opponents “no”. But now, more and more Brexit supporters are saying that things are going badly or at least worse than they expected.
While 59 percent of those who voted to remain in the EU said: “I expected things to go bad and think that it is,” only 17 percent of those in favor of Brexit said “I expected it to be good run and think that it is «. Only seven percent of Brexit opponents think that Brexit went better than expected, while 26 percent of Brexit supporters say that Brexit went worse than expected. Instead of two uniformly opposing camps, the Brexit opponent camp still largely agrees that Brexit is bad, while the supporter camp is now more divided.
In the Brexit referendum on June 23, 2016, the UK's exit from the EU was decided with around 52 percent of the votes cast.
This made the British the first country to leave the European Union after more than 40 years of membership.
The actual exit took place on January 31, 2020 after the withdrawal agreement had been signed by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson a week earlier.
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