Pound surges against the dollar amid signs of Remain campaign fightback

It is the closest thing in Britain’s European Union referendum to a publicly available exit poll, and suggested a 52 percent vote to stay in the European Union against 48 percent to leave.

Bookmaker Betfair said the odds of a Remain vote in the European Union referendum had risen to 84% from 76% overnight.

Bookies and gamblers are strengthening in their conviction that the United Kingdom will opt to remain in the European Union, as polls show a swing away from a so-called Brexit.

Opinion polls have suggested that while big business is broadly in favour of staying in the European Union, small firms have been evenly split in what looks like a photo-finish with one poll showing “Remain” at 45 per cent and “Leave” 44 per cent, with 11 per cent undecided. Those favoring “leave” also tend to be more committed.

As leave began leading the polls, he made a victory speech.

Affecting that turnout were torrential rains, especially in the “remain” stronghold of London. London’s Fire Brigade received hundreds of calls of weather-related incidents early Thursday, including some reports of flooding and lightning strikes.

“I’m fed up of giving money to other people, other countries, when we’ve got our own to look after – homeless, our old war heroes, the old people that go into care and things like that, we just haven’t got the money for them”, said 43-year-old Sharon Chesney in Battersea, south London.

Britain’s normally raucous House of Commons was given over to tears, roses and warm tributes Monday as legislators urged an end to angry and divisive politics in honor of their slain colleague Jo Cox, who was killed last week.

“It is the politics of division and fear, the harking back to incendiary slogans and the rhetoric of “Britain first” that twists patriotism from love of country into an ugly loathing of others”, Kinnock said. “It was an act of terror created to advance an agenda of hatred toward others”.

Only hours before her death, the “leave” campaign had rolled out a poster showing hundreds of non-white migrants making their way across Europe, alongside the words “BREAKING POINT”. Critics labeled the poster racist; Farage insisted he couldn’t “apologize for the truth”. In context, that would be 14 per cent more than turned out at the last general election.

According to official results, 61.3 percent of voters in Sunderland backed leaving the bloc, above the 56.5 percent predicted by J.P. Morgan in analysis published before the vote.

There is a small chance, though, that Parliament could choose not to implement the decision. But such a move would be politically hard – as any politician would find it tough and likely a career-ending move to go against the express will of the people.