Brexit 12 months on: Theresa May must do better, say Express & Star readers
Only one in seven people are happy with the way Theresa May's Government is dealing with Brexit, according to the Express & Star's latest EU referendum poll.
One year on from the vote to leave the EU, we asked our readers a series of questions to gain an insight as to whether their views had changed in relation to the historic decision.
And 61 per cent of respondents said they would vote to Leave the EU if another referendum was held, with 38 per cent saying they would vote Remain.
Only one in 10 people said they had changed their mind since the original vote from June 23 last year, when 52 per cent of the British public backed Brexit.
But there was a damning condemnation of the Government's progress on the issue over the last 12 months.
A total of 39 per cent of people said they were unhappy with how the Government had dealt with Brexit, with 46 per cent saying they 'could do better' and just 15 per cent saying Mrs May had done a good job so far.
One third of people said they believed Britain was on course to get a good deal out of the negotiations, while nearly half of all respondents (48 per cent) said the General Election result had made Brexit 'less certain'.
It came as the official Brexit talks got off to a shaky start for the Government, with Mrs May's offer on the rights of European citizens living in the UK branded 'not sufficient' by Jean-Claude Juncker.
However, the Prime Minister was still rated as the person most people want to lead the country through the Brexit negotiations, with 35 per cent saying she is the best candidate for the job.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had his fair share of support (26 per cent), while Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson polled 13 per cent and Home Secretary Amber Rudd just two per cent.
Around six out of 10 readers said they wanted the Government to aim for a 'hard Brexit', whereby Britain would quit the Single Market and leave the Custom's Union in a clean break from the bloc.
The Black Country and Staffordshire voted overwhelmingly in favour of Brexit in the EU referendum, with high immigration to the region thought to be one of the key issues behind the high support for the Leave campaign.
Around 1,800 readers responded to the poll.
