THREE-quarters of Scots believe Brexit was wrong, a new poll has found, as the 10th anniversary of the vote looms.
A decade ago, only 62% of Scottish voters opted to stay in the EU but were forced to accept a future outside the bloc as a majority in England and Wales voted to leave.
A YouGov poll has now found a whopping 75% of Scots believe Britain was wrong to vote to leave.
Majorities in England and Wales now also think the same, with 61% in Wales thinking Brexit was a mistake and 56% in England.
It found just 5% of Scots think Brexit has been more of a success than a failure, with this figure only standing at around 11% in England and Wales.
Brexit was branded an “unmitigated, unprecedented, continuing disaster” by former Labour leader Lord Kinnock on Saturday as demonstrators marked the 10th anniversary of the UK’s exit vote with a march calling to rejoin the bloc.
Police on the ground estimated that around 1500 people set off from central London’s Temple station on Saturday to Parliament Square in Whitehall behind a banner which declared “We Want Our Star Back”.
The National Rejoin March (NRM) was filled with people carrying EU flags and wearing blue and yellow hats and T-shirts that said “Citizen of Europe” and “Re:Union”.
The YouGov survey said majorities in England, Wales and Scotland back rejoining the EU, but only in Scotland do the public support rejoining without the UK’s former opt-outs on the Euro and Schengen area.
Scottish Leave voters are consistently more negative about Brexit than their counterparts in England and Wales, the poll also indicated.
Researchers say though that this difference in opinion north and south of the Border is not solely down to Scots being less likely to have backed Leave in the first place.
While around nine in 10 Remain voters in all three countries (89-92%) say Britain was wrong to vote to leave the EU, nearly four in 10 Scottish Leave voters (38%) agree, compared to 22-24% of their counterparts in England and Wales.
Sizeable majorities in all three countries – 74% in Scotland, 70% in Wales and 59% in England – would support Britain having a closer relationship with Europe, without rejoining the EU, single market or customs union itself.
Only marginally smaller majorities in England (54%) and Scotland (70%) back rejoining the EU, while in Wales the number wanting to reverse Brexit drops more noticeably, to 59%.
When it comes to rejoining the EU without Britain’s former opt-outs, as some EU officials have suggested would be the case if the UK wanted to regain its membership, only the Scots still tend to support rejoining, by a narrower margin of 51% to 33%.
In England and Wales, just 34-37% of the public would support rejoining if the UK were required to join the Euro and participate in the Schengen passport-free travel zone, while a greater 44% would oppose EU membership on these terms.
Support for Britian’s current relationship with Europe remaining as it is stands at just 30% in England, 27% in Wales and 21% in Scotland, while even fewer (11-21%) would like to see Britain further loosen its ties with the EU further.
