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UK: Polls Show EU Support Amid 10-Year Referendum Anniversary

Is Brexit a generational betrayal that demands a new vote or a hard-won sovereignty worth defending?

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UK: Polls Show EU Support Amid 10-Year Referendum Anniversary

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Above: A protester holds a Union Jack and an EU flag in Parliament Square in London on June 20. Image credit: Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images

The Spin

Left narrative

Brexit has been a generational betrayal. 60% of Gen Z Britons would vote to rejoin the EU, and 50% already call it a failure. The pro-Brexit majority from 2016 has effectively vanished as older Leave voters died and millions of young pro-EU voters entered the electorate. A fresh referendum is overdue, and the numbers make clear which way it would go.

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Right narrative

Brexit delivered something Brussels never could: sovereignty, border control and the freedom to set British rules for British people. The economic struggles since 2016 owe far more to COVID and the war in Ukraine than to leaving the EU, and other European economies are faring no better. Rejoining would mean surrendering hard-won independence to an unelected bureaucracy that never had Britain's interests at heart.

The Critic

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