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  UK: With 3 days to go, Leave and Remain are neck and neck

UK: With 3 days to go, Leave and Remain are neck and neck

Published : Jun 20, 2016, 12:42 am IST
Updated : Jun 20, 2016, 12:42 am IST

Campaigning for Britain’s EU referendum resumed Sunday following a pause after the shock murder of MP Jo Cox, with the latest opinion poll average putting the rival camps neck-and-neck.

Campaigning for Britain’s EU referendum resumed Sunday following a pause after the shock murder of MP Jo Cox, with the latest opinion poll average putting the rival camps neck-and-neck.

Prime Minister David Cameron warned there was no “turning back” if Britons vote to leave the European Union, saying it would be a “humiliation” for the nation.

As polls showed the Remain camp gaining ground just four days from Thursday’s critical in-or-out vote, leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage said Cox’s murder had cost the Leave campaign momentum.

“Her humanity was powerful and compelling and we would do well to recognise her as an amazing example: a 21st century Good Samaritan,” Rever-end Paul Knight said at her church service on Sunday. Cox, an active Remain campaigner, was stabbed and shot Thursday, the first murder of a sitting British legislator since 1990.

After a three-day pause, political leaders hit the stump again on their final push for votes in a referendum that will shape not only the future of Britain but also the EU.

The What UK Thinks website's average of the last six polls, conducted between June 10 and Saturday, put the Remain and Leave camps level at 50-50, excluding undecided voters.

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