After tumultuous year Britain is split over whether 2017 will turn out to be good or bad with Brexit and President Trump on the horizon
New research says 45% of the public think it will be a good year for the UK, and 43% think it will be a bad one
AS the eventful year of 2016 draws to close, Brits are divided as to whether next year will be good or bad for the UK, according to a new survey.
Research shows that the country is fairly evenly split - 45% think it will be a good year overall, and 43% think it will be a bad one.
Polling by Ipsos MORI showed that over half think 2017 will be good for Theresa May, however, and just 35% think she will have a bad time.
Things can only get better for Jeremy Corbyn, on the other hand.
Just one in five think next year will give him cause for celebration, but a whopping two in three think he will have another bad year.
Even 46% of the Labour party think he's in for a rough ride - perhaps after some of his colleagues recently gave him 12 months to turn their poll ratings around.
58% of people think London's Mayor, Sadiq Khan, will have a good year, and almost half think Boris Johnson's won't turn out well.
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There was less doubt over the possibilities ahead for the EU and America.
With Donald Trump taking office in January, some 59% said they expected a bad year for America and just 28% a good one.
And expectations for the EU were even gloomier, with 18% saying 2017 will be good for Europe and 69% bad.
Ipsos Mori head of political research Gideon Skinner said: "The public's expectations of winners and losers in 2017 suggests they see little reason to change their current views of the political scene.
"A week is a long time in politics, and a year even more so, especially with Brexit on the horizon, but Labour has a long way to go to win back the confidence of the public."