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Two years ago the UK voted to leave the European Union and bumpy negotiations have been on going since. Cornwall was part of that strong 'No' to the EU vote, of course with 65% of its voters deciding leaving was the best option.

Now it seems some of them may have changed their minds and would rather the UK stayed in the EU club.

New figures have revealed that more than half of people in Cornwall think the UK would be better off economically in Europe - and a majority want to stick with the Single European Market.

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The new Brexit survey shows 52% of Cornwall Live readers believe Britain will be better off economically inside Europe. As well as this, 54% said Britain should continue to be part of the Single Market.

The figures show a split between those who voted Leave and those who voted Remain in the referendum. Among Leave voters, 8% think Britain is better off economically in Europe, while nearly a fifth of these voters (19%) think we should continue to be part of the Single Market.

Remain voters are, unsurprisingly, much more likely to think that continuing close ties with Europe is a good idea, with 87% saying Britain is better off economically inside Europe and 83% saying we should continue to be part of the single market.

A breakdown by age shows that one in eight Leave voters aged between 18 and 24 (12%) said Britain would be better off economically inside Europe, while it was one in 10 among those aged 25 to 44. In comparison, just 7% of Leave voters aged 65 and over think Britain will be better off economically inside Europe, with 82% saying it will be better off outside.

As well as this, three in 10 Leave voters aged 18 to 34 believe we should still be part of the Single Market, compared to just under a fifth (18%) of those aged 65 and over.

It also showed that whether Leavers or Remainers, all agreed that the ongoing negotiations were less than satisfactory. More than three-fifths of those surveyed (62%) said they were not happy with the way they were going, with just less than a fifth (18%) saying they were happy (the rest weren't sure).

Those who think Britain would be better off economically inside Europe were almost twice as likely to be unhappy with negotiations (81%) than those who think Britain would be better off outside (44%). There was a similar gap between those who think Britain should be part of the single market, 77%, and those who don't, 47%, were unhappy with the negotiations.

Regardless of how those surveyed voted in the referendum, they were more likely to be unhappy than happy with the way negotiations are going.

Among those who said they voted Leave, more were unhappy with the negotiations than were happy. We found 48% are unhappy with the status of negotiations compared to 30% who were happy. More predictably, more than three-quarters of those who voted Remain (77%) said they were unhappy, compared to 7% who said they were happy.

The proportion saying they were unhappy saw a steady decrease from 67% of those aged 18 to 24 to 55% of those aged 65 and over. Those aged over 65 were the most likely to be happy with progress, at just over a quarter (27%), but only 12% of those aged under 35 were happy with negotiations.

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Although Leave voters were nearly twice as likely to change their votes if the referendum were held next week, most of those surveyed said they would still stick with how they voted - 86% of Leave voters and 93% of Remain voters. Leave voters were more likely to say they would not vote in the same way now, with one in 15 Leave voters saying they'd act differently (7%) compared to one in 28 Remain voters (4%).

The older the person, the more likely they were to stick with their voting decision, but not by much. The survey showed 87% of 18 to 24-year-olds would vote the same way compared to 90% of those aged over 65.

Those aged under 45 who voted Leave were most likely to say they would now vote differently, 10%, compared to just 5% of Leave voters aged 65 and over, while Remain voters aged 55 and over were most likely to say they had changed their view (5%), compared to 3% of Remain voters aged under 45.

Elsewhere, those living in Scotland were most likely to say Britain would be better off economically inside Europe, at 63%, including 13% of Leave voters. They were also the most likely to say that Britain should stay in the Single Market, at 66%, followed by those in Northern Ireland, 60%, including 26% and 24% of Leave voters respectively.

Those in the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber and the East Midlands were the most likely to say Britain will be better off outside, at 40% each, with those in Yorkshire and the Humber and in the East Midlands the most likely to say Britain shouldn't be part of the Single Market, at 31%.

Half of Leave voters in Scotland and Northern Ireland (50%) are unhappy with the status of negotiations. Leave voters in the South West were the most likely to be happy, but even then its just a third (34%).

Leave voters in Scotland (11%), Northern Ireland (9%) and London (9%) were the most likely to say they would change their votes, while Remain voters in the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands and South West (all 5%) were the most likely to have changed their view.

The survey run in partnership with Google Analytics was part of a major new Brexit survey of almost 220,000 readers of Johnson Press, Newsquest and Trinity Mirror websites.