A top pollster has delivered a stark reminder after recent polling showed less than a third of Britons would vote to leave the European Union if the Brexit referendum were to be redone.
According to a More in Common poll, 52 per cent of voters would vote to remain if the 2016 Brexit referendum were held again today.
Nearly half of respondents (49 per cent) were in favour of there being another referendum to rejoin the EU over the next five years.
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However, 37 per cent said they wouldn't back another referendum, after 2,113 people in Great Britain were polled.
The polling took place between July 22 and 24 and showed a strong shift in public sentiment.
Support for Remain had increased by four percentage points over the year.
Head of Quantitative Research at Public First Adam Drummond told GB News that "Brexit regret" came from three places.
"People who weren't old enough in 2016 but would've voted Remain," he said.
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"People who didn't vote but wish they'd turned out for Remain, and people who voted Leave or were ambivalent and think it's all been handled really badly."
With that said, Drummond said: "The best thing Brexit has going for it is that Britain being outside the EU is now the status quo".
He added that "even hardcore Remainers have little desire to go through all that hassle again".
Drummond said whether there should be another referendum was a "classic surface-level question".
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"It's easy to say that you like the idea of one in a poll, but do they think the Government should spend time on that instead of fixing the NHS or welfare?" he said.
"What it does mean though is that the Government can probably get away with a fair amount of alignment with the EU short of actually trying to formally join it again, because a lot of the passion has been taken out of the debate."
Drummond added that "we saw that with Rishi Sunak's Windsor Framework and the muted reaction to the EU agreement earlier this year".
And Drummond's sentiment about the UK having a more informal relationship with the EU has already fledged its wings.
The Labour Government in May agreed a deal with the EU, described as an "unconditional surrender" by GB News' Jacob Rees-Mogg, allowing e-gate access for British passport holders in Europe.
It also included no health certificates for pets travelling into EU countries and the removal of red tape over most food and drink imports and exports.
Starmer also recently secured migrant deals with France and Germany in a bid to clamp down on illegal migrants coming into the UK.
The poll found that the only groups where a majority would still vote Leave were people who had voted Conservative in last year's General Election - that being 52 per cent.
Reform voters were at a whopping 68 per cent.
Nigel Farage has gone a step further, having previously vowed to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR); however, the poll showed this was not a favourable move, with 58 per cent of people saying the UK should remain.
Only 28 per cent said they would be in favour of leaving, and 14 per cent said they didn't know.
Whether the UK should leave has been a recent topic of discussion, with Shadow Justice Secretary, Robert Jenrick, backing to leave the ECHR when running against now-Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch last year.