Brexit Polls by ICM Show ‘Leave’ Widening Lead Over ‘Remain’
Two new polls by ICM suggested the U.K. is on course to quit the European Union, with both phone and online surveys showing the “Leave” side opening up a 5 percentage-point lead over “Remain.”
A telephone poll of 1,000 people conducted June 10 to 13 found “Leave” at 50 percent and "Remain" at 45 percent, ICM said in a statement Monday. An online poll of 2,001 adults conducted over the same dates put “Leave” at 49 percent and “Remain” at 44 percent. Phone polls had previously tended to show better results for “Remain.” The findings come in the wake of other polls in recent days that have shown growing momentum for a so-called Brexit.
The campaign to stay in the EU deployed former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday to try to reach his party’s voters and persuade them to back continued membership in the June 23 referendum. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne called for pro-EU businesses to speak up about their concerns.
“People who are concerned or businesses who are concerned or investors who are concerned about the prospect of Britain leaving the EU should speak up,” Osborne said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Liverpool. “This is not the moment for businesses to sit it out.”
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