Brexit is the thing that British people are most worried about

Brexit is the single biggest issue Britons are worried about a new poll reveals.

Britain’s troubled relationship with the European Union, which it is due to leave in March, trumps all other problems for the UK, an Ipsos Mori index poll shows.

Britons are now more worried about Brexit than crime, the NHS or the economy.

More than half of the public, 53%, cite Brexit as the single major issue for the country in December.

Concern about the NHS has fallen slightly since and is now in second place with 45%, the poll reveals.

Crime is joint third with immigration at 19%.

‘Aggregated data from across 12 waves of the Ipsos MORI Issues Index shows that over half (53%) of the British public are worried about Brexit, making it the biggest issue facing the country during 2018,’ said the pollsters.

The study also found that men, 57%, appear more worried about Brexit than women, who ranked that and the NHS equally when it came to long-term concerns.

Regionally, it is also the biggest concern almost everywhere.

It is six or more percentage points ahead of the NHS in Scotland, Wales, London, the south east and south west, east of England, West midlands, Yorkshire and Humberside and the north east of England, found Ipsos Mori.

Only in the north west of England – 52% to 48% – was Brexit beaten as a concern by the state of the NHS.

Scotland and Wales also named Brexit as their biggest concern.

The study was published on the same day as a cross-party group of MPs dropped plans for a House of Commons vote on a second referendum, claiming they do not have enough support.

British MPs have still to approve a deal on Britain’s withdrawal and recently voted down Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans.

Under current law, the UK will exit the EU on 29 March, whether or not a deal has been struck.

MPs will get another chance to vote on Mrs May’s deal on January 29, but it is unclear yet that she has persuaded enough sceptics to back her plan.

Amendments have tabled by MPs which could see Article 50, the process by which the UK leaves the EU, suspended by some estimates up until Christmas.

If passed that amendment will be legally binding on the government

For the study, Ipsos MORI interviewed 12,053 adults aged 18+ across Great Britain over the course of last year.