A durable majority?: How public opinion on the EU performs under pressure

 The UK faces new challenges - a constrained fiscal pot and an increasingly unstable geopolitical environment. A closer relationship with Europe is firmly on the table as part of the solution.

Advocates for EU membership argue that public opinion has shifted, but if the 2016 referendum showed us anything, it is that a seemingly safe majority can be softer than it first appears. If any government is going to stake its political capital on reopening the Europe question, it needs to be sure that there is clear potential to build a durable majority.

New polling in this report by IPPR and Persuasion UK asks how soft or otherwise public support is, where the country’s red lines are, and what potential exists for Burnham’s government to build a positive case for a genuinely different relationship with Europe.