Michael Lambert: 69.5% of Daily Express Readers Would Like to Undo Brexit

Jul 8, 2023 | Post-Brexit the British economy is in decline. Businesses are struggling with falling sales, as discretionary spending is hit by higher interest rates and higher taxes. Tobias Elwood, the Conservative MP stated publicly that Brexit has been a mistake and that the UK should seek to rejoin the EU Single Market. A poll carried out by the Daily Express revealed that 69.5% of their readers believed Brexit had been a mistake.

Rishi Sunak appeared before the House of Commons Liaison Committee, although he could only stay for a limited time because he had to attend a photo shoot at a hospital later. Sunak does not like being questioned and seemed uncomfortable before the Committee.

I suggest the Tories may well try to remove Sunak before long and possibly replace him with Penny Mordaunt. This Tory government are mired in sleeze and incompetence. However, for many voters they could well offer a way of eventually returning to the EU via the Single Market and Customs Union since this is now clearly what the majority of voters would like.

Keir Starmer has however made it impossible for the Labour Party to offer a return to the CU, SM or the EU having specifically ruled it out for the duration of his leadership. He is, therefore, now determined and committed to making a success of Boris Johnson's hard Brexit despite a large and ever-growing majority of the British voters being opposed to this.