Brits are pining for the pre-Brexit migration system.

Jon Stone   Politico.eu16 October 2025
The idea was that leaving the bloc would give the UK back “control” of its borders and create a fairer system.

But the widespread perception is it didn’t turn out that way.

By a whopping two-to-one margin, voters now favour the pre-2021 immigration system to the one that has taken shape since leaving the EU, according to striking new polling commissioned by POLITICO.