More Than Half of Britons Now Want to Stay in EU: Poll

An anti-Brexit protester demonstrates outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, on Dec. 13, 2017. Reuters/Simon Dawson

EDINBURGH–A poll has found that 51 percent of Britons would now keep European Union membership while 41 percent want to leave the bloc, a near reversal of last year’s referendum result.

The BMG poll of 1,400 people for The Independent published on the newspaper’s website on Saturday came as Britain moves into a second phase of negotiations on exiting the EU, which will focus on trade.