UK Remain, Leave camps stand at about 50-50: Polls
Two recent opinion polls show that “Leave” and “Remain” campaigns will have a very close contest in the upcoming referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union, as polls results stand at about 50-50.
A poll, carried out by YouGov in The Sunday Times until June 10, showed that 50½% of respondents wanted the UK to leave the EU and 49½% voted to remain in the bloc.
A close result was also observed in an online vote conducted by Opinium in The Observer. The survey was ended on June 10 and revealed that some 51% of the interviewees supported the “Remain” campaign while 49% backed the “Leave” camp.
This as another survey, released by The Independent on Friday, found that the “Leave” camp has managed to open up a 10-point lead over the rival “Remain” campaign, leading them 55 percent to 45 percent.
The UK will vote on June 23 on whether or not it should stay in the EU. The decision has far-reaching consequences for both the country and the bloc.
Membership of the European Union has been a controversial issue in the UK since the country joined the then European Economic Community in 1973.
Those in favor of remaining in the bloc argue that leaving it would risk the UK's prosperity, diminish its influence over world affairs, and result in trade barriers between the UK and the EU.
On the spectrum, Britons who favor withdrawal believe that outside the bloc, the UK would be better off in conducting its own trade negotiations, better able to control immigration and free from what they believe to be excessive EU regulations and bureaucracy.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who supports the “Remain” camp, said on Sunday that “If we vote to come out, we are putting ourselves deliberately in a less good economic position in our absolute key market.”
Boris Johnson, former London who is a lead campaigner for the Brexit, said the vote is a great chance for Britain “to take back control of all sorts of aspects of our lives including, for instance, immigration policy, which, as you know, at the moment is very heavily skewed towards the European Union, it's very biased."
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