A third of landlords remain undecided on Brexit one week before vote

A YouGov poll for the Times now has the Leave vote seven points ahead of Remain, while ICM polls for the Guardian has Leave six points in front, and another poll in the Telegraph has Leave one point ahead. The survey of voters gives a strong signal that momentum for the “Leave” campaign is continuing to build with just ten days to go until the European Union referendum on June 23rd.

The Millward Brown Ulster poll puts the Remain side on 48 per cent, with Leave on 32 per cent and a further 20 per cent still undecided as the campaign enters its final days. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne called for pro-EU businesses to speak up about their concerns.

The landlord panel survey from the National Landlords Association (NLA) is published a little over a week before the referendum on 23 June which will decide whether or not the United Kingdom stays in the EU.

Taking Osborne’s advice, Terry Leahy, the former chief executive officer of Tesco, predicted a recession in the event of Brexit. “We can not afford another recession”.

The ICM poll, the latest to show “Leave” pulling away, was hotly anticipated on financial markets. “Leave” is also enjoying a larger margin when the telephone poll is taken in isolation, with the results from this putting “Remain” five points behind (at 45 per cent of voters, compared to 50 per cent backing Brexit and five per cent who have yet to make up their minds).

The flood of traffic to the ICM website even prompted Martin Boon, an analyst at the polling group, to declare that “everyone needs to calm down a bit”, via his own Twitter account. The pound dropped 1.18% to $1.4102 at 1624 BST.

Other polls published on Monday also put “Leave” ahead, while betting odds on Brexit narrowed.

Earlier, Brown sought to relaunch the opposition party’s campaign to keep Britain in the 28-nation EU.

The findings are a body blow to David Cameron, George Osborne and the Labour Party, all of whom were hoping they could regain the initiative this week after a series of polls showing “Brexit” could become a reality. “Maternity pay, gender equality, holiday pay, a maximum working week – all gained from Europe”. “If you have a relaunch with Gordon Brown, that’s got to be some measure of desperation”, he told the BBC.