| Author (Person) | Grant, Jonathan, Pollitt, Alexandra |
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| Series Title | The Conversation |
| Series Details | 14.07.17 |
| Publication Date | 14/07/2017 |
| Content Type | Journal | Series | Blog |
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Key findings of the report + The British public are more concerned with managing demand for public services than simply restricting freedom of movement, particularly those who voted to Leave the EU. + People highly value having access to EU markets for trade in goods and services, but would also like the UK to be able to make its own trade deals. + People value the UK being able to make its own laws, but not as much as single market access or the ability to make trade deals. + People with degrees hold stronger views about the value of freedom of movement for holidays and working and are less sensitive to the level of EU contribution. They also hold different views to those without degrees regarding the importance of UK sovereignty over its laws. + The public favour a Brexit agreement that resembles Norway’s current relationship with the EU, allowing for free trade with other countries while remaining within the single market and accepting freedom of movement and some loss of sovereignty.Article discusses the findings of a research report What sort of Brexit do the British People want? from The Policy Institute (King's College, London), RAND Europe and the University of Cambridge published in July 2017. This research provided one of the most rigorous assessments to date of what sort of Brexit the United Kingdom public wanted. The British public wanted a deal on Brexit, and were willing to compromise to get one the research showed. The finding suggested that the public would disagree with the Prime Minister’s claim that 'no deal for Britain is better than a bad deal for Britain' when it comes to negotiations for leaving the EU. The research was the first to use an economic approach known as 'stated preference discrete choice experiments' to measure how the British public value different components of a Brexit deal. More rigorous than traditional polling, the research involved interviews with 917 people, drawing from those who participated in the British Social Attitudes survey, considered to be the 'gold standard' for survey research. |
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| Source Link | https://theconversation.com/british-public-open-to-compromise-on-brexit-deal-new-research-finds-80985 |
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