It is an uneventful anniversary in the UK, marking three years since the Withdrawal Agreement came into force – and thus London’s full divorce from the EU. An agreement that, after Leave over Remain’s victory in the June 2016 referendum, sealed the end of the bumpy road to separation, but the fallout of which continues to arouse debate and reproach: as confirmed by widespread disappointment in the country at the failed promises of this move and on the results achieved so far, which have been confirmed by a flood of polls in recent weeks.
One of the latest, carried out on the eve of today’s deadline, testifies to how a sense of ‘bregret’ (a neologism created by the crisis between Brexit and regret, i.e. regret) is now majority in all but one of the island’s constituencies occurs . Including those who are more Brexiteer and historically Eurosceptic. But that doesn’t seem to translate, at least for the moment, into a desire to rejoin the Union: a goal achieved according to a poll published over the weekend by I, an online magazine that grew out of an offshoot of the Europhile British newspaper The Independent, it is cited by no more than 43% of respondents, consistently below the absolute majority, with 41% against and a potentially crucial 16% undecided or disinterested. A trend reflected in the refusal not only of the ruling Conservative Party but also of Labor Opposition leader Keir Starmer to reopen a debate at this stage on the problematic hypotheses of a return to arms from Brussels; or just in the internal market or in the customs union.
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