A decade on from the Brexit referendum, how would Britons vote now?

TIt’s been years since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, but the debate continues to rage.

Britain’s relationship with Europe remains one of the country’s biggest political issues, and given that divisions on the issue have increased over the past decade, the debate is far from resolved.

52 per cent of voters favored Leave in 2016, but almost half of British people want a second referendum, according to a major poll earlier this month.

The research also suggested that attitudes towards both the EU and the referendum have changed over the last 10 years.

Independent He spoke to people from across the country about their views on the Brexit campaign, the implications of the results and how they would vote if the referendum was held today.

Peter Cain, 56, butcher from Ashton-in-Makerfield, Manchester

I voted to leave in 2016, today I would vote to remain.

“I voted to leave but if I had my time again [it would be different]”

“The country’s GDP fell by 5 percent because we left, things are more expensive [more expensive].

“I don’t think it’s been explained properly. I think the same thing is happening with the immigration issue, which everyone voted for; more people are coming in on boats than ever before.”

“I think we were misguided”

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Tracey Morris, 62, cleaner from Hereford, Herefordshire

I voted to leave in 2016, I am undecided in today’s vote

“What’s changing is that our town centers are losing shops and filling up with barbers, manicurists and unlicensed people. “I don’t see any real improvement.

“I regret the way I voted because we had so many promises and they didn’t come true. All this money goes to the NHS. It was a lie.”

“Brexit ultimately saw a loss of support for politics. Who knows what they will say, where we will go next.”

Robert Jeffries, 72, retired electrical worker from Pontypool, Monmouthshire.

I voted to leave in 2016, I will vote to leave today

“I voted Leave because I felt we were being oppressed by the EU and I didn’t think the EU would ever be held accountable.

“Since we left just six years ago, I feel we have yet to make the most of our own sovereignty.

“Life hasn’t changed too much for us, but to be honest I didn’t expect it to happen so quickly.

“I hope that we will eventually see the benefit of leaving the EU because of our freedom to make our own decisions going forward.”

Martha Keith, 43, small business owner from London

Voted Remain in 2016, will vote Remain today

“As a small business owner, I think the most important thing about being in the EU is free trade. We always suspected that leaving would be challenging, and from a business perspective it has proven to be exactly what we expected. From a business perspective, it hasn’t been good.”

“I hear from small business owners every day [about] the complexities and challenges it has brought and continues to bring.

“This has created paperwork, it has created bureaucracy, it has created costs and it has had a real impact on the ability of small business owners to operate within the EU, to ship goods, to build customer bases.

“For us the EU was a huge growth area and it was a real shame to see the impact Brexit had.

“Brexit has not helped at all, it has just been hindered.”

Martin Grant, 64, semi-retired from Presteigne, Powys

Voted Remain in 2016, will vote Remain today

“I voted Remain because I thought it was in our interests, I didn’t see the point in leaving our biggest trading partners.

“It felt like madness. In the end, it was a protest vote that won. I think people felt like things could be better for them and that they had no one to answer to, and they wanted a change.”

“People have been deceived, Nigel Farage behaved like a sly old salesman, he is loved and has great influence… [people] They are waking up and realizing that despite Westminster’s promises, they are becoming even more neglected. “We now face a polarized nation.”

Fiona Hornsby, 55, Liverpool bar owner

Voted Remain in 2016, will vote Remain today

“The Remain campaign looked pretty confident of winning, so the Leave campaign was much more aggressive and was tapping into ideas that people had that immigration was ruining the country.

“That was their biggest issue. We got our sovereignty back and it doesn’t make any sense. He just seems to be taking advantage of it.”

“Farage is still doing this now and saying immigrants are to blame for everything.

“That’s not true. If people didn’t come here, if we went elsewhere, you wouldn’t have a rich and interesting country like ours, would you?”

Bill Pickup, 65, retired senior consultant, from Glossop, Derbyshire

There was a Leave vote in 2016, there will be a Leave vote today

“I voted Leave because I thought we no longer had control over our laws and the only way to get them was to leave the EU.

“We could not benefit from the EU law that was promised to us. We tried to do something.” [with] yes but they [politicians] We really didn’t want to leave and didn’t reach our potential.

“It wasn’t Brexit’s fault, it was the politicians’ fault. Not much was done to help us get back on our feet after the withdrawal.”

John Smyth, 70, retired care worker

There was a Remain vote in 2016, there will be a Remain vote today.

“I voted Remain because it was clearly the best option for our country. “The other option was ridiculous and that’s how it turned out.

“Before, there were no problems going to Europe, now we are facing problems, it was a bad idea from start to finish.

“We’ve gone downhill. We had hope, we had expectation, but now we look stunted. Brexit has just made us isolated strangers.”