In charts: the issues dividing Britain

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Perceived tensions around immigration and politics have intensified over the past few years as divisions between social classes and Brexit voters have started to heal, the data showed.
50% : In 2020 the share of Britons reporting tension with immigrants and between Brexit voters was around 80 per cent.
47% : Bobby Duffy, director of the Policy Institute, said Brexit had given a structure and identity to a "long-standing sense of resentment and cultural division" that had previously been "bubbling" under the surface.
47% : "The tension between leave and remain identities has gone down but the divisions and different visions for the country revealed by Brexit have not gone away, they have just morphed into party political splits," he added.
46% : The study reveals a growing sense of nostalgia for the past and unease about the pace of cultural change, fuelling political divisions and support for Nigel Farage's Reform UK party despite fading Brexit faultlines.
43% : Culture wars and immigration tensions have deepened the political fractures revealed by Brexit, according to a study that shows 84 per cent of Britons say the UK feels divided.

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