The Engineer poll: 69 per cent of respondents back remain

Running from the 5^th to the 11^th of December 2017, the publication’s latest poll on the topic attracted votes from 1467 respondents, 69 per cent of whom said that they would vote remain if the referendum were repeated.

Although responses are anonymous, and the sample group will not exactly match that of The Engineer’s June 2016 poll, the latest statistics suggest that the proportion of engineers wishing to remain in the EU has grown over the past 18 months. In the June 2016 poll – which attracted 1364 votes -  52 percent of respondents said they were voting to remain, 43 per cent to leave, whilst 4 per cent were undecided.

As well as asking which way readers would vote in a notional re-rerun we also asked whether they had changed their minds since 2016.

The majority of voters - 88 percent - haven’t changed their view since the referendum. The events of the past 18 months have prompted a change of opinion amongst some, however. The largest shift has been seen in leave voters switching to remain (8 per cent). But the poll also shows that some who voted remain have now decided that the UK would be better off outside of the EU, with 4 percent of respondents selecting this option.