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Publish Date : 14 November 2017 - 21:35

Tajani: Most Brits Now Believe Brexit a Mistake



LONDON (Dispatches) -- Most British people now believe Brexit was a mistake, the president of the European Parliament has said.
Antonio Tajani said that disillusionment had set in "even in the British government” over the process of leaving the EU, though officials would not admit as much publicly.
In an interview with German newspaper Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Tajani warned that if no deal was reached in Brexit talks Britain "especially” would have problems but that "the 27 remaining EU countries would also be affected.”
"The problem is not us: the EU speaks with one voice. Rather, the government in London is struggling with a lot of difficulties. The British have to tell us what kind of relationship they want with the EU - whether they want the model of Norway or that of Switzerland,” he told the newspaper.
"I believe that by now a majority of the population sees Brexit as a mistake. Even in the British government disillusionment has come, even if it will not officially admit that.”
Polls of the British public show a gradual trend of an increasing number of people believing Brexit was a mistake. A YouGov tracker last month had 47% of people believing leaving the bloc to be a mistake, with just 42% saying it was the right decision.
Almost one in five of the NHS’s European doctors have made plans to quit Britain, according to research that has raised fresh fears of a Brexit-induced medical brain drain.
And almost half of the health service’s 12,000 medics from the European Economic Area (EEA) are considering moving abroad, the British Medical Association survey of 1,720 of them found.
Surveys on the question of how people would vote in another referendum however show the overall picture broadly unchanged from the referendum date, with two highly polarized camps unmoved by recent events.
At a European Council summit last month Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, said Brexit could still be stopped, and that possible outcomes included "a good deal, no deal or no Brexit.”
The UK government must come up with "concrete and clear” proposals in the next two weeks to break the logjam in Brexit negotiations, European business leaders told Theresa May on Monday.