Daily Briefing – Monday 8th June

Good morning and welcome to your (somewhat belated) Unbound Daily Briefing - here are the topics that we are covering today:

• Observer Chose to Ignore Brexit Majority Polling Data
• Britain Unbound Hit Newsstands With YouGov Poll
• UK Government Rumoured to be Conceding Home Fees for EU Students

Observer Chose to Ignore Brexit Majority Polling Data

The X/Twitter platform in the UK is awash with content today, after Britain Unbound revealed exclusively that The Observer had been undertaking polling on support for Brexit for over a year, and not publishing it despite the content being very newsworthy. Perhaps it is that the polling consistently showed majority support for staying out of the EU, that prevented this particular polling from seeing the light of day until now. Thankfully Opinium is a member of the British Polling Council, and so publishes the raw data tables from polling on their website.

• Read our original news item, on the Opinium/Observer data release on 6th June
• Read our updated news story, on a year of Opinium data showing consistent majority for staying out

Britain Unbound Hit Newsstands With YouGov Poll

In a weekend heavily saturated with polling data, the publication of exclusive YouGov polling conducted on behalf of Britain Unbound showed decisively that the British people do not want the terms of the EU Reset as they are currently being constructed, where the UK sacrifices control over certain laws through so-called "dynamic alignment" in order to gain greater sector-specific access to the Single Market.

• Read ourarticle on the exclusive YouGov polling, and what it say about the EU reset negotiations
• Read our Explainer on the EU Reset negotiations

UK Government Rumoured to be Conceding Home Fees for EU Students

As had been reported on over recent months, the EU has yet again pulled a Darth Vader negotiating tactic a la Empire Strikes Back, and changed the terms of the EU reset deal ahead of the intended summit in July. The difference now is that, unlike earlier in the year when UK government spokespeople stated that the UK would not concede and allow for EU students to be charged the same domestic level of annual fees at UK universities, it would seem that yet again the UK government is set to capitulate and give the EU whatever is requested. The message that this delivers on the world stage is that it is open season on the UK, and if you ask for something enough you will probably get it. No doubt Argentina is watching.