UK voters turn against current Brexit deal, and would accept EU rules for better trade, poll says

My understanding is that immigration was one of the issues (specifically migrant labour), but there were a number of trade issues as well.

(Continental here, so not from the UK, either:) Yes, immigration was a major topic, but far from the only one. Although, this was predominantly about (particularly Eastern) European immigration. Part of the "Four Freedoms", the pillars of the EU's Single Market that a certain Margaret Thatcher usually gets the most credit for having come up with, is the Freedom of Movement for Workers (which really goes back to the EU's ancestor organization, the European Coal and Steel Community), i.e., the right to work anywhere in the EU.
Apart from the Schengen Agreement, which is about temporary visa and enforcement, and that the UK hadn't been a part of anyway, immigration from outside the EU is a national matter.
Relevant for the Calais situation is that the EU has the Dublin Regulation, which allows members to return refugees to another member they had been registered in, as members they had travelled through were required to do per the regulations' rules. Outside the EU, this is an international matter of the Refugee Convention, which for good reasons doesn't allow states to expel refugees to others they may have crossed en route.

Still here? On trade I'll be short: It's easy to forget that, as far as the general public has an idea of how the Single Market makes it so much easier than international trade normally is, for the most part, people only really picked this up during and because of the reporting on Brexit negotiations and the issues businesses encountered afterwards. Pre-Referendum, people were largely ignorant of how it even worked, which is how the Leave Campaign(s) got away with promising them unicorns that would be roaming the sunny uplands in the first place.

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