Revealed: Remain support surges but Black Country still wants Brexit

New analysis shows two Black Country constituencies have switched from leave to remain two years on from the Brexit vote and that support for remain has grown in every area.

However, most of the region’s constituencies still have a majority favouring exiting the EU – meaning the result would barely change should another referendum be held now.

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The data has been compiled through YouGov polls of more than 15,000 people in every UK constituency and revealed a huge surge in support for remain. A total of 112 seats would now vote remain having voted leave two years ago, according to the data.

But the change in opinion has not been so stark in the Black Country and Staffordshire. Wolverhampton South West and Warley are the seats which would now be remain, where 50.1 per cent and 52 per cent of people respectively want to remain.

But elsewhere in the region every other constituency was still found to be wanting to leave the EU.

It comes following increasing calls from some remainers for a second referendum either on the terms of the Brexit agreement or leaving the EU altogether, amid building frustration over the Government’s negotiations with the EU.

Theresa May’s Brexit plans were plunged into fresh chaos last month when David Davis quit as Brexit Secretary last month in protest at her model for leaving, before being swiftly followed by prominent Brexiteer Boris Johnson.

Labour MP for Warley John Spellar questioned whether the data reflected a realistic view of opinions in the Sandwell constituency but accepted some voters were concerned about the Government’s handling of Brexit. He said: “I’m puzzled to as to how they have worked these figures out. They don’t seem to have done an opinion poll in Warley.

“The utter incompetence of how the Government has handled this has created uncertainty across the country but it is still very unclear as to how people will react when we get to next year and we get the final deal.”

He added: “It is still unclear what the Government is going to do. The fundamental message loud and clear, two to one in Sandwell, is that people have had enough of unlimited freedom of movement.

“That is also the view of many other European countries and the bureaucrats in Brussels are sticking their heads in the sand and refusing to see or hear what the public is saying right across Europe.”

Westminster should legislate for the people to have the final say on the Brexit terms.”