Brexit boost – polls show Leave lead a week before European Union referendum

Public opinion in Britain has swung sharply in favor of quitting the European Union, according to a poll published exactly one week before the country’s historic referendum.

“From hearing a lot of the people here [in Amsterdam], most people – despite what all the polls say – seem to think that when the British get in the voting booth or send in their ballots that the undecided will vote to remain”.

Cox’s death nearly overshadowed news that the Bank of Japan held off from further easing monetary policy, a non-move that caused the yen to spike across the board.

“In light of today’s events, tomorrow morning’s scheduled release of BMG/Herald EU Referendum polling has been delayed 24 hours to Saturday morning”, BMG said in an emailed statement.

Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted that he was cancelling a planned pro-EU rally in Gibraltar following the shooting.

This will be viewed as a veiled reference to leading Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London widely tipped as a likely successor to Cameron.

Cameron was already on his way to Gibraltar when news of the attack broke, on the first trip to the rocky outcrop by a British premier since 1968.

LONDON, June 16 Sterling fell more than 1 percent to a 10-week low against the dollar on Thursday, after polls showed more Britons will vote to leave the European Union than stay next week and the Bank of England warned the pound may fall sharply in response. “We will have climate-change refugees, we will have others coming from Africa to the EU, and of course that has led to even more anti-EU sentiment across the European Union”. It’s the first time the Ipsos MORI telephone survey has shown a lead for the “leave” camp.

Jean-Claude Juncker, a veteran European federalist, said the “crisis” of a Brexit would trigger closer integration.

“Until this morning I would have said to you that on the balance of probabilities, “Remain” were the favourites. I think we no longer have a favourite in this referendum”, he told BBC television.

Sterling has suffered since the end of a year ago from a steady pricing in of risks from a Brexit – seen largely related to the shocks to economic growth and the financing of Britain’s huge current account deficit.

“City watchers are beginning to take the threat seriously and start to price in the possibility of a Brexit”, said Joe Rundle, head of trading at ETX Capital. “But we don’t want to and can’t do without them”, the paper wrote on a background of the Union Jack. “For Vote Leave to suggest anything else is deliberately misleading”.