Breaking Brexit: The UK votes to leave the EU

In a referendum, the United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union after 43 years. Similarly, Cambridge. Generally, it was noticeable that where there are universities, the Remain prevailed, implying that university students value the opportunities for travel and finding work that go with European Union membership more than they worry about the competing with European Union migrants for jobs in the UK. Jenny Watson, chief counting officer for the referendum, has declared from the count centre in Manchester that “Leave” wins the vote with a 52-48 percent split. Working class voters were mostly in favour of Leave, the middle class less so.

The results also spell bad news for U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, who campaigned vigorously to remain.

“The will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered”, he said.

Both sides of the campaign had urged the over 46 million registered voters including 1.2 million British Indians to fearless rains and flooding to cast their votes.

Wales and the majority of England outside London, which included both Conservative and Labour strongholds, voted in large numbers for Brexit. On the opposing side, former London mayor Boris Johnson, heading the final drive for the Vote Leave campaign, had hoped today could mark the UK’s “independence day”. Immigration had been the central theme throughout and expected to swing most of the votes in favour of “Brexit”. Referendum results show a country divided by geography, social class, and across the generations.

It may be that electoral exhaustion came in to play – they had a national election as recently as May as well as the independence referendum the year before. However, a significant percentage (16.85 per cent) of those who fell into the “Don’t Know” category in the study last month were expected to hold the key to the results.

A YouGov online poll of almost 4,800 people found 52 percent of respondents said they voted to remain in the European Union and 48 percent voted to leave, Joe Twyman, YouGov’s head of political and social research for Europe, told Sky News.

In a departure from the norm, no major broadcasters had commissioned any exit polls over concerns about accuracy.

Financial markets plummeted in the aftermath. Several polling stations were forced to move because of flash floods.

‘Why lie about something and get the vote and say “well that’s not happening, this isn’t happening anymore?”.