Brexit, surveys: Remain lead after 52% but first uncertain data – The Republic

London – a head to head. First data uncertain in the UK after surveys (opinion poll) that gave victory to the front of Remain. The seats of the referendum on Brexit were closed at 23 Italian now: the first opinion poll of YouGov , distributed by Sky News , give the ‘No’ exit ( ” Remain “), at 52%, while the ‘Yes’, that is, the votes in favor of exit from the EU (” Leave “), would stand at 48%. The turnout, according to preliminary data, was very high: around 70% with a 84% spike in Gibraltar, where he chose the “Remain” a rate of 95.4 percent (compared to 4.1 % that is expressed for Leave).

But with the actual counting of votes, the optimism of Remain has slowed. And much. Much less marked, in fact, the victory of those who do not want to go out by the EU in Newcastle, where the front of the pro-EU has only reached 50.7%, against 49.3% of the “Leave”. A result that disappoints the expectations of those who believed in a statement far more Net “Remain”, especially when read jointly with the figure of Sunderland: hence the “Leave” won with 61.3% of the vote, against 38.7% of. “Remain”

from the polls, in short, it seems to go out the image of a United Kingdom split into two. According to the results of the same survey disaggregated by YouGov , 75% of young people between 18 and 24 voted against the Brexit, while 61% of over-sixty-five voted to leave the European Union . A split based not only on age, but also on the level of education: 71% of graduates have voted against the Brexit, 29% in favor. Those with lower educational qualifications did vote 55% in favor of Brexit and 45% to stay in Europe.

“Thanks to everyone who voted to keep Britain stronger, safer: it’s better in Europe. ” And ‘the hot tweet (immediately after the opinion poll) British Premier David Cameron which also thanked the hundreds of activists of the campaign for the Remain around the Kingdom.

But the first to comment during a press conference has been Nigel Farage , the UKIP leader, Eurosceptic party: “we dominated this election campaign and for this we have been demonized. But I shook a lot of hands of people who do not want to stay in the EU, we saw that half of the population does not want to stay. Now it will be important what will happen in the rest of Europe “. Farage then stated, after the statements made in the polls just closed on a probable victory of “Remain”: “I’m not declaring defeat, the results are not final. We’ll see, but I right or wrong, however, the EU is bound to failure and sooner or later we will win this war. ” Then he added: “The campaign has been amazing, no one would have said a year ago that the result could be that now. We will resume our independence. The Remain will probably slightly better.”
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Boris Johnson , former mayor of London and a leading exponent of the front favorable to Brexit, thanked the voters after the polls close, not to say too much about the outcome of the vote. “Democracy has won, now we wait for the verdict of the people,” he tweeted the former mayor. “Thanks to the thousands of activists of the Labour who campaigned and supported the Remain,” instead wrote the leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn on Twitter.

And a letter signed by 84 conservative MPs – two thirds of whom are supporters of the campaign “Leave” – ​​was sent to Cameron to ask him to stay in power whatever the outcome of the referendum. Among the signatories were the same Boris Johnson and Michael Gove: two leaders of the anti-EU front that now, however, would mend the divisions createsi among conservatives during the election campaign.

And the pound, which after first opinion poll was flown to the maximum of 2015 reaching almost $ 1.50, then he suffered a collapsing decline on share $ 1.44. Even the euro was flown over share $ 1.14.