Prime Minister David Cameron’s ratings have fallen 8 percentage points as he battles to keep Britain in the European Union ahead of a June referendum, according to a YouGov poll for the Times newspape
Prime Minister David Cameron’s ratings have fallen 8 percentage points as he battles to keep Britain in the European Union ahead of a June referendum, according to a YouGov poll for the Times newspaper on Thursday.
The survey showed that 39 per cent of voters backed Britain staying in the 28-member bloc level pegging with the support for withdrawal. Five per cent said they would not vote while 17 per cent were undecided, the online poll of 1,693 people carried out on April 11-12 found. The previous YouGov survey, carried out a week ago, had the remain camp on 40 per cent and the leave campaign on 38 per cent.
The latest survey comes after a difficult week for Mr Cameron, who has faced criticism and scrutiny of his personal wealth after he said he had profited from selling shares in an offshore fund set up by his father which had been revealed in the Panama Papers.
That led him to taking the unusual step of publishing a summary of his tax records for the past six years.
British Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn on Thursday made his most impassioned plea for Britain to stay in Europe, saying the socialist case for the EU had dispelled his long-held suspicion of the bloc.Labour leader Mr Corbyn, who voted against EU membership in a 1975 referendum, said he was now a supporter of the protections it offered workers, consumers and the environment.
“There is nothing half-hearted about what we are doing,” he said during his first major speech on the issue ahead of a June 23 referendum that polls show could go either way.
