Lord Sugar has branded Brexit the ‘biggest disaster of my lifetime’ and insisted the UK should beg to be let back into the EU.
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of leaving the bloc, the business mogul and Apprentice star blamed the decision for crushing economic growth.
He told BBC Breakfast that if he were PM he would go ‘on bended knees’ to Brussels and ask to rejoin.
The Brexit referendum in 2016 was followed by years of wrangling over the terms of the UK’s departure.
Boris Johnson finally struck a deal that allowed the divorce to go ahead in early 2020, just before the Covid pandemic hammered the globe.
Lord Sugar has branded Brexit the ‘biggest disaster of my lifetime’ and insisted the UK should beg to be let back into the EU
A poll published this week suggested that just 30 per cent now believe the UK was right to leave the EU
A poll published this week suggested that just 30 per cent now believe the UK was right to leave the EU.
Immigration – widely considered a key reason for the Leave vote – has since surged to new record highs.
Lord Sugar said: ‘The full ramifications of us not being in the EU are starting to really take its toll.
‘If I were the PM I would be coming along on my bended knees and asking to be allowed back in.
‘It’s all to do with trade, free trade, small people, small traders can’t ship goods abroad now… it’s a terrible situation.
‘How do we get out of it? My honest opinion – get back in the EU.’
Keir Starmer has made a ‘reset’ with the EU a core aim for the Labour government, although he has stressed the UK will not go back into a customs union or the single market.
According to YouGov research carried out earlier this month, 55 per cent of Brits now think Brexit was the wrong decision.
That view was shared by 18 per cent of those who voted Leave – although 66 per cent stand by their original choice.
Some 7 per cent of previous Remainers have switched to say it was right for the UK to leave, while 88 per cent had not changed position.
Keir Starmer has made a ‘reset’ with the EU a core aim for the Labour government, although he has stressed the UK will not go back into a customs union or the single market
Some 18 per cent of those who voted Leave now think it was the wrong move – although 66 per cent stand by their original choice
