Britons Want to End Free Movement, Keep Bits of EU, Study Finds

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Support for both goals is most pronounced among backers of May?s Conservative Party, with 93 percent backing free trade with the bloc even as 81 percent want an end to free movement.
While majorities backed limits on immigration, they also supported free trade with the EU and European regulations on water quality, compensation for flight delays and cheap phone calls.
Tory ViewsAt the same time, 88 percent of ?Leave? voters and 91 percent of ?Remain? supporters want to maintain free trade with the EU, something European leaders have said is impossible without free movement of workers.
?The stance taken by the U.
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government of wanting to end freedom of movement but maintain free trade fits well with the views of most Conservative voters,? Curtice said.
U.
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voters want to curb free movement of people from the European Union after Brexit while keeping many of the benefits of belonging to the bloc, a survey found.