Brexit deal YouGov poll shows just how divided the UK is

Only 17 per cent of the UK public think Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal is a good one, according to a YouGov poll.

But despite the apparent lack of enthusiasm, 41 per cent say Parliament should accept it anyway, compared to just under a quarter calling for MPs to throw it out.

With fewer than two weeks to go until the October 31 Brexit deadline, the Prime Minister is facing a battle to get MPs to accept his deal.

The general public appears to be divided as ever, with 23 per cent saying they do not support the deal and 17 saying the back it.

Opinion could easily shift as more details of the controversial plan emerge, with 45 per cent saying they haven’t made up their minds.

Today’s poll shows 31 per cent of people who voted to leave the European Union are happy with the deal, which is set to be debated at a special sitting in the Commons tomorrow.

Key Tory allies the DUP have flat out refused to back it because they fear it will leave Northern Ireland having to follow different rules and regulations to the rest of the UK.

They say it will dent the country’s economy and destabilise the Good Friday Agreement, forged in the 1990s to stop the Troubles, which saw decades of bloodshed.

Out of the Brexit voters surveyed, 11 per cent gave the deal a thumbs down, while 31 per cent saying they were in favour of it.

A total of 67 per cent thought Parliament should go ahead and accept the proposal, despite 39 per cent saying they didn’t know enough about it yet.

Many will be eager to get Brexit over the line instead of risking further delay to the process.

Only 10 per cent of Brexit voters thought Parliament ought to throw out the agreement hammered out by the Government and the EU.

The poll shows 41 per cent of remain voters thought Parliament should reject the deal, compared to 24 per cent who thought MPs should approve it.

Out of those, seven per cent said they liked Johnson’s proposal compared to 40 per cent who rejected it and 41 per cent who said they needed more information to make up their minds.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called it a ‘sell out deal’ and slammed the idea of a customs border in the Irish sea.

He said he would support a second referendum on the agreement before it comes into effect, but it hard to know which way this would go based on the uncertainty of the British public.

When asked about reports of the PM trying to woo Labour MPs in leave-voting areas, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said he does not believe his party’s MPs would back the deal.

YouGov’s polling suggests 34 per cent of Labour voters do not support the PM’s proposal, compared to eight per cent who back it and 15 per cent saying it is neither good nor bad.

The SNP has gone as far as to table an amendment to reject the proposal, demanding an immediate extension to the Halloween deadline and a general election.

Only 11 per cent of Conservative voters said the deal was a bad one, compared to 35 per cent in favour of it and the rest sitting somewhere in the middle.

A mere 5 per cent of Lib Dem voters thought it was a good agreement, compared to 47 per cent who said it was a bad one.