'We're in the last, hard yards': quiet hopes for UK-EU reset at crucial summit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : That rises to 68% of Reform UK voters - just 14% of them think Brexit has worked out well.
56% : Starmer's framing of the reset aligns closely with the public view on Brexit.
55% : "There are the headline numbers, which suggest the public view has substantially moved on Brexit.
53% : The most consequential will be negotiations to reach that new agreement on agrifoods, made easier by signs the UK is willing to accept dynamic alignment with EU standards and a role for the European court of justice.
52% : But my voters, who probably voted previously for Boris, are still pretty ideological about Brexit," one MP in a Midlands seat said.
51% : A deal on fish is ready to be swapped in exchange for the EU dropping its demands that any students arriving in the UK under a youth mobility scheme would be able to access studies on home fees, a red line for the UK.
48% : On Thursday, the European trade commissioner, Maroš Šefčovič, repeatedly referred to the "paradigm shift" in global trade after meeting trade ministers.
45% : "People here know Brexit 'hasn't been delivered' but they're wary of us going backwards," the MP said.
42% : " Public polling backs up this view; according to More in Common, 40% of people believe that Brexit could have worked well but the government handled it badly, compared with 36% who believe it could never have worked.
41% : In a highly unusual move, the EU ambassadors are meeting in Brussels on Sunday to agree to any further compromises on either side negotiated over the weekend, taking the deal down to the wire.
41% : "But many of those voters who backed Brexit do not believe that they personally were wrong to do so.
40% : Just 9% of Leave voters have now changed their opinion to believe Brexit could never have worked.
36% : That will more than hint at a coming together in the face of international turmoil, the code often used for the actions of Donald Trump.
24% : Taken together, there are high hopes it will be a critical signal that the UK has fundamentally changed, drawing a line under the Brexit years and Conservative leadership putsches - and can show the world a stark contrast to Donald Trump.

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