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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Younger Britons are more pro-EU but ‘fixing’ Brexit not their priority

A pro-EU march in London in October 2019.
A pro-EU march in London in October 2019. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

“We goofed it up, you have to fix it,” the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Tuesday in a message to the younger generation about Brexit.

Fixing it would be “the direction of travel” with regard to the UK rejoining the EU, she told an audience in Brussels. But as the fourth anniversary of Brexit approaches, is it likely that Britain’s millennials and generation Z will demand a rapprochement?

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