Disappointment. Seven years after the 2016 referendum, less than a fifth of Britons who voted for Brexit believe their country’s exit from the EU was a success, according to a new poll.

The findings, based on a poll of 4,005 UK adults conducted between May 26 and June 2 by Public First for the UK in a Changing Europe think tank, show that just 18% of those who voted for of leaving the EU believe that Brexit went “well” or “very well”.

The results showed that 30% believe it was “neither good nor bad”, while 29% of Brexit supporters believe that leaving the EU has had a negative economic impact on the UK.

According to the poll, 72% of those who voted for Britain to leave the EU want to to stop talking about Brexit.

Of the supporters of Britain leaving the EU who are currently unhappy with how Brexit turned out, 70% think it could have gone well, while 18% think the decision to leave the EU could never have been made. it’s going great.

Almost half of this group believe that politicians could have made Brexit work, but the people’s elected representatives did not try to make it work.

Anand Menon, director of the think tank UK in a Changing Europe, said: “While very few people believe Brexit is going well, a larger number of supporters of Britain’s exit from the EU believe it is still too early to express a definitive judgment. .

“Many who voted to leave believe that Brexit was not a success because the politicians let them down. The danger is that this will lead to an erosion of trust in politics and politicians.”

The figures show that 88% of those who voted to leave and feel Brexit went badly now say they have “lost faith” in UK politicians, compared to 75% of all those polled. in the poll, regardless of how they had voted in 2016.

Public First’s Rachel Woolf said: “Few people think Brexit went well, but was it inevitable? Those who voted for exit do not believe it, by a large margin.”

“People like Nigel Farage take a more general view that politicians have screwed up. On the other hand, people are not exactly willing to keep talking about Brexit.”