Nigel Farage: It Looks Like Remain Will Edge Out Leave in #Brexit Vote

A bunch of indicators suggest Remain has won: a YouGov poll puts it at 52% Remain, 48% Leave; bookmakers work out the odds as 84% likely that the country has voted to Remain; and the markets are all rising (and markets like stability and for some reason super-national socialist governments).

Update [Maet]: In the few returns so far the votes have been split nearly 50-50. But Remain seems to be consistently underperforming expectations and Sunderland went strongly for Leave. If this trend continues, it's likely Leave will prevail.

Only about 2% of the votes have been counted so far. The first large area results will be available in 3 to 4 hours so we'll know then if the trend is holding. You can follow the results at the Telegraph election page.

Lindsay Lohan is also live-tweeting the referendum here.

Update 2 [Maet]: It's still very early but you have this tweet:

Senior labour figure tells me 'this has gone, Leave to win' - Don't jump up and down with joy or in despair, it's early and it's one source

-- Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) June 24, 2016

posted by Ace at 05:19 PM

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