The SNP has warned Scotland is stuck in a state of "Brexit limbo" as a new poll suggested the public has turned against leaving the EU. A survey by Opinium found 57 per cent of voters across the UK believed that Brexit was causing more problems than it solved.
The survey also found falling support among Tory voters, with one third losing 33 per cent all faith in Brexit. Only 22 per cent of those who intend to vote Conservative say Britain’s exit from the EU has solved more problems that it has created.
Alyn Smith, the SNP spokesman on Europe, said the poll was a "reality check" for Westminster parties and urged them to start planning to rejoin the EU.
The MP said: "Despite growing public support for the UK’s return to the European Union both Labour and the Tories have their heads buried in the sand, refusing to own up to the chaos and damage their Brexit has caused - starkly revealing Scotland’s state in Brexit limbo.
"This poll should serve as a reality check for the Westminster parties and serve as an opportunity to move forward with a plan to rejoin the EU. Instead it’s more likely to entrench even further their out of touch stance, demonstrating yet again that Scotland can only return to the EU with the full powers of independence."
Smith, the MP for Stirling, also claimed that Brexit had wreaked havoc on the economy and had piled more pressure onto households and businesses hit by the cost of living crisis.
He said: “The economic chaos and added pressure the failed Brexit obsession has caused is only adding to the financial fears households and businesses are facing as a result of the Tory-made cost of living crisis.
“This is as much on the failure of opposition at Westminster as it is on the Tories though, with Labour and the Lib Dems refusal to take the Tories to task over Brexit rendering them complicit in the damage being caused to the country. Only the SNP is standing to oppose Brexit, but as we’ve seen time and time again, only independence can bring a permanent end to it.”
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