It's just over nine months since the United Kingdom took the shock decision to leave the European Union and debate has raged ever since on what exactly Brexit will look like.
From a supreme court case to Parliament holding a crucial vote on whether Theresa May should be allowed to trigger Article 50 – formally starting the process of pulling Britain out of the union – it has been a turbulent few months since the vote.
But now it has been decided that Article 50 will be formally triggered on Wednesday (March 29).
Getwestlondon polled its readers in February to ask how they would vote if a second referendum on Britain's membership of the EU were to be held again.
More than 1,000 responded
There were a staggering 1,002 responses to the questionnaire and high proportion said they would vote the same way.
The results include the totals for everyone who took the survey on getwestlondon , so will include a small number of people who filled it in from abroad, and a larger number from other parts of the UK.
On June 23 last year, 48.1% of voters (16,141,241 votes) opted to remained a member of the EU, while 51.9% (17,410,742) voted leave.
Most leavers would vote the same
In our poll, carried out in January, 83.7% of getwestlondon readers that voted leave said they would still vote the same way, while 11.8% would now vote remain.
While on the opposite end of the scale, 87.9% remain voters would stick with their initial choice and vote to stay, while just 10.5% would change their vote.
Out of the 1,000 people who filled out our survey, 44.5% voted to stay a member of the union, while 39.3% voted leave, with 16.2% saying they did not cast a vote.
Confidence in our future
We also asked how confident they were in the future of Great Britain after Theresa May's major Brexit announcement last month, when she revealed the UK would be pulling out of the single market.
A majority of those who responded said they felt exactly the same about Britain's prospects after the Prime Minister had set out her vision of Brexit.
The results found that just 21.8% of readers felt more positive, and only 26.7% felt less so.
Border controls or single market?
One of the key debates that has stemmed from Britain's shock decision to leave behind the political union is the power to restrict immigration versus access to the single market.
As many politicians have pointed out, access to the uniform set of trading rules – known as the single market – relies on the free movement of people from one EU member country to another.
In light of this pivotal discussion, we asked our readers which was more important to them – control over borders, or access to the single market.
Interestingly, the results appear to mirror the result of the referendum, with 52.3% of people saying border control is most important, compared with 47.7% of readers supporting access to the single market.
A second referendum?
Another hot topic, popular amongst the Liberal Democrats , is whether there should be a second EU referendum after the terms of a Brexit deal are revealed.
A slightly higher percentage are in favour of not having a second vote, with 55.2% saying they do not want another, while 44.8% want to see a second vote after a deal is announced.
And finally we asked our readers about the key political players in the European Union debate to find out who impressed them most since the referendum in June.
A total of 36.5% of the 1,000 readers who took the survey said none of the major figures had impressed them over the last eight months.
Most popular Brexit politician
The most popular figure is Prime Minister Theresa May, with 29.2% saying she impressed most with Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn trailing with just 9.2%.
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage was the second most popular politician with 16.1% followed by SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon.
The Lib Dem's Tim Farron was favoured by 8% of respondents, while UKIP's current front man Paul Nuttall getting just 3% of the vote.
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