More than half of UK engineers want a second Brexit referendum, survey shows

Carried out between November and December 2017, the survey asked The Engineer’s audience for its views on Brexit, its appetite for a second referendum and its priorities in the Brexit negotiations.

Receiving 1,494 responses, the survey reveals an audience which, whilst generally in favour of remaining in the EU, is also highly polarised with few areas of common ground between engineering remainers and engineering leavers.

The survey also commissioned the views of a representative sample of 1,141 members of the public, enabling us to contrast engineers’ priorities and concerns with those of the general public.

Some 66 per cent of engineering respondents voted remain in the 2016 referendum, with a slightly reduced 64 per cent saying they would vote the same way in a second referendum.

Interestingly, this paints a similar picture to the results of an online poll carried out by The Engineer back in December in which 69 per cent of 1,467 respondents said they would vote remain in second referendum. The key difference with the latest survey was an eight per cent shift in voters from leave to remain.