Chris Hopkins, the director of political research at polling firm Savanta, says polling has consistently suggested a majority of voters would support rejoining the EU. That, he adds, is driven by two things: demographic change and “Brexit regret”.In 2016, “older voters were far more likely to be leavers and younger voters were far more likely to be remainers”.”Some of those older voters will simply have died off and they’re being replaced by younger voters,” Hopkins says.Voters who were too young to vote a decade ago but have since turned 18 are “overwhelmingly more likely to vote to rejoin”.While many views on both sides are “entrenched”, Hopkins estimates between “one in five and one in seven” leavers might have changed their minds.What was causing “Brexit regret”?”I think there is just a perception not so much that anything was gotten wrong in 2016,” he says.But he adds that “Brits” don’t “necessarily feel as though they’ve really felt the benefit of Brexit”.”Their life hasn’t necessarily improved in the way that maybe some in the Leave campaign said it might.”
‘We’re young Cambridgeshire voters – we don’t think about the EU’
