Brexit poll: Leave camp given major boost after huge swing towards exit from EU

Backing Brexit: Boris Johnson
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Robin de Peyer11 June 2016
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Campaigners backing Brexit have been boosted by a shock new poll giving the Leave camp a 10-point lead over Remain.

In a major boost for Leave campaigners, the survey by ORB for The Independent put the scores at 55 per cent to 45 per cent in favour of pulling out of the European Union

That is a four-point jump in support from April when Vote Leave led by 51 to 49 and an exact reversal of the position when the series of surveys began a year ago.

A 56 per cent majority of 2015 Labour voters - seen as pivotal to the result - back continued membership but 44 per cent are pro-Brexit - while Tories are 62 per cent to 38 per cent in favour of divorce from Brussels.

It comes after a poll for the Evening Standard showed London is set to vote decisively to stay in the EU.

The capital divides by a clear 57 per cent to 43 per cent against a British exit, the YouGov survey of 1,179 Londoners found.

The billionaire businessman claimed Brussels “protects vested interests” and said David Cameron and George Osborne were “fundamentally wrong” to want to remain in the bloc.

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