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 magnate and Apprentice celeb condemned 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 withdrawal.
Boris Johnson eventually struck a deal that permitted the divorce to go forward in early 2020, just before the COVID pandemic battered the world.
A poll issued this week indicated that just 30 percent now think the UK was right to leave the EU.
Immigration – widely regarded as a fundamental 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 percent of Brits now believe Brexit was the wrong decision.
That sentiment was shared by 18 percent of those who voted Leave – although 66 percent stand by their original choice.
Some 7 percent of previous Remainers have switched to say it was right for the UK to leave, while 88 percent had not changed position.
Leaving the EU has not helped us in the slightest – we can’t work or travel freely. UK citizens can only spend 90 days in any EU country. UK citizens now have to have visas to travel to the EU. Immigration is at an all-time high. How has this helped the average UK citizen?
Regaining power and doing what was best for the UK was the goal of Brexit, but the Tories and Labour have so far disregarded popular will, lied in their manifestos, and have no intention of prioritising the needs of the UK people.
Lord Sugar is right. Leaving the EU was the stupidest act of national failure in the history of the UK. We were all sold a lie, and more migrants are coming to the UK than ever before. Our manufacturing is in collapse and we are all poorer. Trade is down, and our government sold snake oil to the unsuspecting Joe Public.
Our leaders need to resolve the issue since people voted for it, but they don’t want the people who supported it. They are bone idle, unwilling to work for their nation, and far too content to overpopulate it with foreigners in an attempt to bankrupt it.
Our government have forgotten how to govern a country. The bottom line is, that they want a comfortable life at the expense of the taxpayer but all for minimum effort.
I think many would agree that the political elite no longer work for the people. They only work, if you can call it that, to line their own pockets.
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