As we have for every general election since 1979, Ipsos has produced estimates of how the voters voted in the recent EU referendum.
When the referendum result was announced, many people were shocked. The UK had voted for Brexit. Many others were delighted. All their years of campaigning to get Britain out of the EU had finally paid off - or had they? Looking at how different portions of our society voted revealed a ...
More than three quarters (77%) of those who voted to remain thought “the decision we make in the referendum could have disastrous consequences for us as a country if we get it wrong”. More than two thirds (69%) of leavers, by contrast, thought the decision “might make us a bit be...
Moved to Britain from Northern Ireland in 1976 I voted in the 1974 UK referendum to join the Common Market (as it was then). I now intend to vote Leave. I am disenchanted with the power of bureaucrats in Europe who dictate to elected parliaments which laws they can ...
I know this is all just fun, but as one of the silent majority who voted no in the referendum last year, I am seriously confused about why you’se all don’t join us in wanting nothing to do with them Londoners! PS Was in Liverpool last year for a short break and it was lovely!
Buoyed up by their experience of (narrowly) winning the Scottish independence referendum with a ‘big fear’ campaign warning of disastrous consequences, Cameron and Osborne re-ran almost the same playbook and for a long time seemed to be winning. Yet Eurosceptic ministers wer...
Politics and Economics comment. Co-Author of How to Lose a Referendum - the Definitive Story of Why Britain Voted for Brexit [http://bit.ly/2ryynRG]. PhD Student KCL - Parliamentary Scrutiny of 2015 EU Referendum Act. Economics and Politics teacher in Lo
Can you not have another referendum soon and change the result? TM No Jean Claude we voted and that is the result. I have to do what the people say. Do not worry I am sending over tomorrow my top guy, David, who has my complete confidence and will sort out all the issues. I will...
incorporation into the EU project of economic, monetary and political union. For many years the UK governing classes pretended the project was not one of union, or thought we could be swept along by stealth. The public thought otherwise, demanded a referendum and voted to be an independent ...
The Brexit process is also likely to have implications for Welsh public services. Wales has received a good deal of funding from the European Union in recent years, but the country nonethelessvoted to Leave(52.5%) in the June 2016 referendum. Without access to the EU’s regional funding, it...