A majority of Britons oppose a unilateral guarantee for EU citizens living in the UK to be able to remain in the country after Brexit, a Sky Data poll suggests.

It comes as Labour said they would give such a guarantee on their first day in office were they win to the General Election on 8 June.

Some 55% oppose such a deal; 44% say that they should only get it if UK citizens in other EU countries get the same guarantee, as the Conservatives have argued; while 11% do not think EU citizens should be given such a guarantee even then.

Just under a third (29%) said they backed a unilateral guarantee, while 16% were unsure.

It is not all good news for the Conservatives, however, with more saying that the Government is doing a bad (42%) than good (25%) job in negotiating Brexit.


And more suspect they would get a bad deal than a good deal when negotiations are complete (37% to 31%).

:: Sky Data interviewed a nationally representative sample of 1,793 Sky customers online 10-13 March 2017. Data are weighted to the profile of the population.

View the full Sky Data tables.