The UK’s messy, ill-thought out exit from the EU has effectively killed off leave campaigns in other member states
Marine Le Pen once referred to herself as 'Madame Frexit': now she never mentions it. Photograph: Bastien Ohier/Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images
She described Brexit as “the most important moment since the fall of the Berlin Wall” and launched her presidential campaign later that year, promising a similar in-out vote on French membership if elected. In one interview, she referred to herself as “Madame Frexit”.Euroscepticism had mushroomed in the wake of the EU’s botched handling of the financial crisis and amid a surge in migration. Brexit had triggered what some called a “secessionist contagion”.
Then came four years of wrangling, political turmoil, a succession of prime ministers, trade barriers, port congestion, passport controls and an economic outlook in the UK that is currently worse than war-torn Russia’s. Even arch-Brexiteer Nigel Farage admits the project has “failed”. According to the European Social Survey, conducted in 30 European nations every two years, support for leaving the EU has fallen significantly since Brexit, in some cases dramatically, with respondents less likely to vote leave in every EU member state for which data was available.decline in leave support was in Finland, where support fell from 28.6 per cent to 15.4 per cent between 2016/17 and the 2020/22 period.
“We can do better,” he said, highlighting “unnecessary barriers to trade” and inadequate co-operation on the migrant issue. If the diplomatic tone contrasts with the one taken by the former Tory administration, the same nagging issues remain.
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