Majority of Brits want a soft Brexit compromise, but leave voters don’t

Hix, Simon, van der Linden, Clifton and Pickup, Mark (2020) Majority of Brits want a soft Brexit compromise, but leave voters don’t. LSE Brexit (22 Sep 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

With the battle over Brexit returning to the House of Commons with the Internal Market Bill, it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture: what the British public wants in terms of a longer-term relationship with the European Union. To try to find out, Simon Hix (LSE), Clifton van der Linden (McMaster University) and Mark Pickup (Simon Fraser University) conducted a survey experiment with a random sample of British voters, where they asked them to choose between hypothetical “package deals”. This forced voters to have to make trade-offs across key issues. When faced with such choices, British voters overall prefer a “softer” form of Brexit: where the UK applies EU regulatory standards in return for quota-free and tariff-free access to the EU’s single market. However, a majority of Leave voters prefer a much “harder” trade-off: of regulatory sovereignty but restrictions on UK exports. Reconciling this difference will continue to plague British politics.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE Government
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain J Political Science > JZ International relations
Date Deposited:	03 Nov 2020 10:57
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 20:17
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/106758

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