Leave takes six point lead — European Union referendum poll

But, when filtered for those likely and registered to vote, the poll showed 53 percent would vote to leave and 47 to remain – the highest support for the “Leave” campaign recorded by the pollster in more than three years.

However, some MPs missed Cameron’s performance, instead watching a Vote Leave protest on the River Thames beside the Houses of Parliament.

Immigration is now the most critical issue, cited as very important to their vote by 33 per cent, up five points in a month, including just over half of leave supporters.

He also said the latest polls were not encouraging.

The BoE’s statement and minutes will be studied for any signs of how it is preparing for what bankers expect to be the most volatile day in London trading since the 2008 financial crisis.

But he added: “The EU will survive, I have no doubt – it is still much easier to survive when you are 27 member states than completely alone”.

If Britain remains, Tusk promised in Helsinki on Thursday that concessions that British Prime Minister David Cameron negotiated ahead of next Thursday’s referendum would be implemented in “less than one year”.

He argued that European Union member states should work professionally on both possibilities.

The survey by Ipsos MORI for the Evening Standard shows the pro-Brexit campaign in the lead by a margin of six percentage points.

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.

It also marks a major turnaround since a May poll by Ipsos MORI, which found 37 per cent wanted to leave against 55 per cent who wanted to stay.

“So I don’t think there is any reason now to change policies, not in the fiscal field, not in the financial stability field”, he said.

A representative for Vote Leave didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Sterling climbed 0.1 percent in the week to 78.80 pence per euro, after two weeks of losses.

The pound hit a new two-month low against the euro. Neither Britain nor the European Union as a whole is prepared for the negotiations that would follow a vote to leave and investors would face “a true landscape of uncertainties”, Axa SA Chief Executive Officer Henri de Castries said at a conference in Paris.

“Britain’s former prime minister Gordon Brown, hoping his country would remain in the European Union (EU), has urged his countrymen to “(recognise) that in an increasingly integrated and interdependent world, each country needs to strike a balance between the national autonomy that it desires and the worldwide cooperation that it requires” (“Leading, not leaving, Europe”; Wednesday).

It said a choice for “Leave” would favour “a pinched nationalism” and “marginalisation”, adding: “A vote to withdraw would be irrevocable, a grievous blow to the post-1945 liberal world order”.