A new opinion poll published Sunday showed more Britons want to leave the European Union than want to stay ahead of a referendum to be held by 2017. The poll is the first to put the EU exit camp in the lead. Forty-three percent of respondents said they would vote to leave, 40 percent would vote to stay and 17 percent are still undecided, according to the poll by Survation research agency for the right-wing Mail on Sunday newspaper. The survey, which was conducted online on September 3 and 4 and had 1,004 respondents, had a margin of error of two percentage points.
Survation's last poll published at the beginning of July showed 45 percent in favour of staying, 37 percent for leaving and 18 percent undecided. Sunday's poll also showed that 22 percent of those who wanted Britain to stay said they could change their mind if the migrants crisis worsened.