News
Good morning and welcome to your Tuesday morning Unbound Daily Briefing - stories we are covering this morning are:
- Rejoin petition shows significant reduction in support
- Huawei shows a Brexit benefit to tech lovers
- Britain Unbound polling in the press
- Ipsos referendum polling for Bloomberg
- Labour cabinet splits on Brexit position
- BBC airs "Brexit: A Very British Civil War"
Rejoin petition shows significant reduction in support
At midnight this morning, the 3rd rejoin the EU petition came to an end, having run for 6 months. The petition received a little over 111,000 votes, and so having exceeded the 100,000 threshold will now trigger a debate taking place in Parliament. So this is a small victory for the rejoin campaign, right? Not so much. The previous rejoin petition, organised by the exact same campaigners, received over 136,000 votes - so having had six months to secure votes, the rejoin campaign were only able to secure 80% of the votes they secured only a year earlier.
Not exactly looking good for their campaign really, is it.
- See the petition on the UK Government petitions website
- See the previous petition that received more votes
Huawei shows a Brexit benefit to tech lovers
In the July edition of Stuff magazine, the latest in high-tech consumer gadgetry has been reviewed - and in the top spot of their "Hot Five" devices is the newly released tablet from Huawei, the MatePad Pro Max. Between all of the rundown of technical specifications, they reveal that when it comes to battery life, the EU version is 10% worse than the version sold in the UK and the rest of the world. A "genuine Brexit benefit" they proclaim. They're not wrong. EU regulations on portable batteries limit the size and capacity, so it is only the EU that experiences this limitation. The UK consumer gets the good stuff, the EU consumer is in the slow lane, having to recharge their devices.
Britain Unbound polling in the press
The release of exclusive YouGov polling conducted on behalf of Britain Unbound, continues to make waves through social media as well as traditional print media. Articles covering the news have spread around world, being picked up by many non-UK news outlets. With much more to be released from the YouGov polling in the coming days, the team here at Britain Unbound are looking forward to many more mentions in the world press.
Ipsos referendum polling for Bloomberg
The polling agency Ipsos have released polling conducted on behalf of Bloomberg, showing a majority of the British public would vote to rejoin the EU were they given an opportunity to do so in a referendum. The Bloomberg article that accompanied it, made some interesting comments to caveat the results. The polling also apparently included that less than half of Brits even wanted a second referendum, and a comment from the Ipsos director of politics trailing another set of polling data, saying that "when the public are presented with various trade-offs involved concerning the UK-EU relationship, a more complex picture emerges".
Labour cabinet splits on Brexit position
The current Labour Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has intervened in the leadership debate within the Labour party by putting herself at odds with others who are using EU membership as a political tool to win their time in the big chair. According to reports in The Telegraph, Yvette Cooper has told Wes Streeting that Brexit cannot be reversed - and on a trip to India she told The Sun that "We should be moving forward in new partnerships, working constructively, on issues from outside the EU."
BBC airs "Brexit: A Very British Civil War"
Both episodes of the new BBC documentary "Brexit: A Very British Civil War", and they are both very much worth watching through to the end. Many myths are dispelled, and a good few people are likely deserving of apologies. It will be interesting to see how the press cover the contents of this documentary over the coming days.
