EU chiefs meet as UK vote sends bloc into uncharted waters

Remain were on 44 per cent in the survey.

Campaigning is over, now all the Remain camp can do is wait…

However, YouGov and other major pollsters failed to accurately forecast the result of Britain’s national election in 2015.

Although most recent polls swayed toward the remain camp in the last couple of days, the lead is still very narrow, which doesn’t explain the surge in pound.

“It is, therefore, a statement of the obvious that a second referendum must be on the table, and it is on the table”, said Ms Sturgeon, who campaigned for a Remain vote.

British citizens living overseas have already cast their vote by mail. In some areas, booths had to be shut and moved to a different location due to water-logging but the general spirit remained on a high throughout the day.

Broken: Following Britain’s vote for Brexit, Mr Cameron, a Remain campaigner, announced he would step down as Prime Minister in October, by the time of the Conservative Party conference. He spoke of an “independence day” on Thursday if Britons voted to leave the 28-member club.

One UK Brexit voter told the BBC this morning that he was “a bit shocked” that after he voted to leave the EU, Britain will now leave the EU. Indian-origin voters, the biggest ethnic minority group in the United Kingdom of an estimated 1.2 million, had reflected a divided house in line with the country-wide knife-edge divide in the four-month-long referendum campaign.

Meanwhile, another poll by YouGov gave 51 per cent fore Remain compared to 49 per cent who would vote for a Brexit.

Mr Johnson is among 85 Eurosceptic Tory MPs – including every Cabinet minister who voted Leave – who have signed a letter pledging loyalty to David Cameron and urging him to continue as Prime Minister regardless of the result. According to a TNS poll published on Wednesday, the day before the country’s European Union membership referendum, the “Leave” camp has two-point lead over the rival “In” camp.

A woman walks past European Union referendum posters for the pro-Europe Remain Group, We Are Europe, depicting U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, left on poster, kissing leave Europe advocate British MP Boris Johnson, on a billboard in Finsbury Park, London, Tuesday June 21, 2016.

The financial markets had also signalled a more stable result throughout the week with the Pound Sterling holding strong. A number of banks and hedge funds are reported to have commissioned private exit polls. That said, here’s a useful list of the ten most likely to vote Leave and Remain as well as ten areas which could go either way.