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Should the UK sign the EU agreement integrating Gibraltar into the Schengen area with a customs union?
InternationalEnded 6 Jul

Should the UK sign the EU agreement integrating Gibraltar into the Schengen area with a customs union?

Yes 56%No 44%55 votes cast

The EU and UK have negotiated an agreement on Gibraltar since October 2021. It would integrate Gibraltar into the Schengen area, create a customs union with the EU, remove physical border controls with Spain, and enable direct EU flights. The Council has authorised provisional application from 15 July 2026 after legal review and signature.

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Yes squeaked home on the Gibraltar accord, 56% to 44%, a 12-point margin that flatters a result built on a genuine split rather than any groundswell. Of the 55 voters with profiles, the deal only cleared thanks to lopsided support from one group offsetting a dead heat elsewhere.

That group was women, who backed the agreement 12-5 (71%), while men split exactly down the middle at 17-17. It is a rare instance where gender, not age, is the story — men here treated a Schengen-and-customs-union tie-up for Gibraltar as a coin toss, women did not.

Age told a messier tale, with the 25-34 bracket most enthusiastic (13-7, 65% yes) and the 65+ cohort not far behind on a small base, while 35-44s were the only age group to reject it outright (2-4). The pattern echoes the UK's post-Brexit fault line over sovereignty-versus-access trade-offs, where each new EU-adjacent arrangement — Windsor Framework, youth mobility, now Gibraltar — reopens the same argument in miniature.

A deal this evenly argued among men suggests the "control versus access" debate that has defined Brexit's aftermath is still being fought to a draw, even as the numbers, this time, tipped toward Yes.

“It's British!”

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100% yes among Left voters, 3 of them
100% yes among C. Left voters, 10 of them
71% yes among Centre voters, 21 of them
20% yes among C. Right voters, 5 of them
15% yes among Right voters, 13 of them
0% yes among H. Right voters, 1 of them
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It's British!