Angus Reid Global Monitor : Polls & Research

Euro Remains A Hard Sell In Britain

September 07, 2004

(CPOD) Sept. 7, 2004 - Many Britons are against the adoption of the Euro, according to a poll by MORI for the Foreign Policy Centre. 32 per cent of respondents strongly oppose British participation in the single currency.

The Euro has been used in 12 European Union (EU) countries since Jan. 1, 2002. Sweden, Denmark and Britain did not adopt the currency. In June 2003, chancellor of the exchequer Gordon Brown published a report stating that Britain was not ready to adopt the Euro.

In December, the Labour government released the question it intends to use in case a referendum on the European currency takes place. The query reads, "Should the United Kingdom adopt the euro as its currency?"

Conservative Party constitutional affairs spokesman Alan Duncan criticized the question's wording, saying it "makes no mention that the pound would be replaced."

Polling Data

Which of the following best describes your own view of British participation in the single currency?

I strongly support British participation

10%

I am generally in favour of British participation,
but could be persuaded against it if I thought
it would be bad for the British economy

26%

I am generally opposed to British participation,
but could be persuaded in favour of it if I thought
it would be good for the British economy

24%

I strongly oppose British participation

32%

Don't know

8%

Source: MORI / The Foreign Policy Centre
Methodology: Face-to-face interviews to 1,063 British adults, conducted from Jul. 22 to Jul. 27, 2004. No margin of error was provided.

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