24 June 2016

BREXIT - 52% Percent Votes for UK to Leave EU

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Sky News Projects UK Votes To Leave EU
04:55, UK, Friday 24 June 2016

Vote Leave Party EU Referendum Results

Sky News is projecting the UK has voted to leave the European Union.

The pound plummeted to a 31 year low as the market responded to growing expectations that the UK was to split from Brussels after 43 years.

The outcome plunges into doubt the future of the Prime Minister David Cameron, who called the referendum with some of his own backbenchers not ruling out the prospect of a general election.

Brexit more likely, Leave edges ahead in UK referendum

Results of UK's EU referendum are close but the Remain campaign appears to be failing to

pick up enough support

Supporters of the Leave campaign celebrated as the result of the referendum came in [EPA]

The Leave camp has edged ahead in the UK where voters have gone to the polls in a referendum

on whether the country should stay in the European Union.

With more than half of the UK's council votes counted on Friday morning, a Brexit is now

looking more likely.

The Reuters news agency says the Leave camp has moved ahead to 51.3 percent, with the '

Remain vote just behind on 48.7 percent, with 171 of the 382 counting areas declared.

UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage already declared victory in a speech held in London.

"The dawn is breaking on an independent United Kingdom," Farage said to loud cheers at a

Leave campaign party.

"I hope this victory brings down this failed project and leads us to a Europe of sovereign nation

states, trading together, being friends together, cooperating together, and let's get rid of the flag,

the anthem, Brussels and all that has gone wrong."

"Let June the 23rd go down in history as our Independence Day."

Farage went on to accuse Prime Minister David Cameron and former prime ministers Gordon

Brown and Tony Blair of "irresponsible, open-door mass-immigration that has damaged the

quality of life of ordinary, decent people in this country."

Farage said Prime Minister David Cameron, who campaigned for Remain, should resign

"immediately" should the Leave camp win the referendum.

The British pound plunged to a 31-year low as results came in.

The figures delivered a deep shock to financial markets, overturning earlier anticipation of a

narrow victory for Remain.

The pound initially soared as polls closed and two opinion surveys put Remain ahead and two

leading supporters of the Leave campaign said it appeared the pro-EU side had won.

But it then suffered one of its biggest one-day falls in history, plummeting more than 10 percent

in six hours, from about $1.50 to below $1.35 as results suggested a strong possibility the UK

would vote to quit the bloc.