BrexitBuild-up to a referendum

• The UK's EU referendum: June 23rd 2016

  Voting intention %

  Con

  Lib Dem

  North

  Scotland

  Female

  Rich

  Young

  Labour

  UKIP

  South

  Wales

  Male

  Poor

  Old

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  Rich:

  44Remain

  43Leave

  11Don't know

  BMG; ComRes; ICM; Ipsos MORI; Survation; TNS; YouGov (polls of >900 adults only)
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  Why would you vote for this?

  The IMF lays out the grave consequences of Brexit

  Sober analysis from economists in Washington, DC
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  Bagehot

  The Nigel Farage Show

  Parochial and vacuous, Britain’s dismal referendum campaign has been a populist’s dream

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  In their words (II)

  Heard on the trail

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  The referendum campaign

  The Battle of Evermore

  It has been a bad-tempered and unenlightening campaign, during which few have changed their minds. But Vote Leave now has an edge
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  In their words (I)

  Heard from overseas

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  Brexit

  What if

  The aftermath of a vote to leave the European Union will depend on unpredictable responses in all sorts of places. It is unlikely to be pretty
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  Brexit briefs

  The Economist’s guide to Britain’s EU referendum

  The facts about everything from sovereignty and immigration to economics and the consequences of leaving
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  Brexit polling

  Leave is gaining ground. But do not rule out Remain just yet

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  Schumpeter

  Their eyes on Albion

  Most European bosses are twitchy about Brexit; a few spy an opportunity
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  Brexit

  Jeremy Corbyn, saboteur

  Lacklustre and poorly led, the Labour Party is letting down the Remain campaign
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  Brexit brief

  The charms of variable geometry

  Our final Brexit brief argues that a multispeed Europe suits Britain—and others
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  Consequences of Brexit

  Beyond the fringe

  Brexiteers are deliberately vague about the alternatives to European Union membership. That is because most models, such as Iceland’s, are unsatisfactory
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  Bagehot

  The new J-curve

  Britain’s flirtation with Brexit is more complicated than an anti-globalisation vote
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  Register or regret

  Young voters! Your country needs you

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  Bagehot

  Pity the Brexpats

  Britain’s diaspora could pay a high price for a vote to leave the European Union on June 23rd
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  Brexit brief

  If it were done

  There is some dispute over the mechanics of how to leave the EU
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  Brexit and the union

  Tug of war

  Brexit could lead to a second Scottish independence referendum. But the place to fret about most is Northern Ireland
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  The Muslims are coming!

  The Leave campaign’s dog-whistle strategy will only succeed if Remain voters fail to turn out

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  Brexit brief

  Yes, we have no straight bananas

  Brexiteers carp at European Union red tape, but how much of it would they tear up?
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  Brexit and science

  The European experiment

  Most scientists want to stay in the EU
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  Bagehot

  The continental imperative

  To wash its hands of Europe would be a betrayal of Britain’s past, and future
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  Beyond June 23rd

  The Remain campaign must outlive the referendum

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  The Brexit debate

  The Treasury warns of a “do-it-yourself” recession after a Brexit vote

  The Treasury says Brexit would be an economic disaster, but Brexiteers do not agree
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  Brexit and the Bank of England

  He can, Carney

  The governor is right to intervene in the debate over Europe
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  Brexit brief

  We plough the fields and scarper

  Although agriculture could lose out, most farmers seem to back Brexit
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  Britain and Europe

  Historians and Brexit

  For and against Britain leaving Europe
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  Brexit brief

  Security concerns

  Is Britain safer in the European Union than outside it?
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  Brexit brief

  City blues

  The financial-services industry would be one of the biggest losers from Brexit
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  EU referendum campaign

  The eternal quest for youth

  So far opinions have barely shifted. That means the outcome will depend on turnout by young voters
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  Free exchange

  If it ain’t broke, don’t Brexit

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  Brexit brief

  How others see it

  The European Union would suffer from Brexit—which is why it could not be kind to Britain afterwards
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  Poll of voters’ concerns

  Britons are as worried about the NHS as about immigration

  Anti-EU campaigners are doing their best to link disparate issues
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  Obama in London

  Barack Obama is right: Britain could lead Europe if it wanted to

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  Brexit and the young

  Turning out the teens

  Universities want students to vote in the EU referendum
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  America and Brexit

  More special in Europe

  As Britain’s EU referendum nears, Barack Obama joins the Remain campaign
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  Brexit brief

  The ins and the outs

  Britain has the best of both worlds
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  Bagehot

  B for Brexit

  For diehard Eurosceptics, the Leave campaign is a national liberation movement
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  Daily chart

  Is uncertainty about “Brexit” harming the British economy?

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  Brexit

  A Treasury analysis suggests the costs of Brexit would be high

  Leaving the EU would mean a substantial loss for Britain's economy, says report
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  Labour rejects "Lexit"

  The telling sincerity of Jeremy Corbyn's EU conversion

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  Vote Leave wins the right to lead the pro-Brexit campaign

  The choice of official campaigning group may boost Brexit’s chances

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  A matter of business

  Most firms want to stay in the European Union, but some are leery of saying so

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  Dreaming of sovereignty

  Talk of taking back power may be delusional, but more democracy is not

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  The economic consequences

  Most estimates of lost income are small, but the risk of bigger losses is large

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  Referendum, what referendum?

  Calm and competent, the Remain campaign is haunted by the spectre of indifference

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  Let them not come

  Hostility to large-scale European Union migration could decide the referendum

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  Unfavourable trade winds

  It would be hard for Britain to negotiate good trade deals post-Brexit

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  Next stop: Brexit?

  The campaign to leave the European Union is still behind, but picking up speed

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  The roots of Euroscepticism

  Why Britons are warier than other Europeans of the EU

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  Channel hopping

  A twelvefold rise in attempted illegal entries inflames Eurotensions

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  Unity in disunity

  Conservative splits on Europe belie the reality: Eurosceptics have already taken over the party

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  The view from abroad

  London risks losing its status as the capital of the world, argues James Rubin, a former US assistant secretary of state

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  The Brexit delusion

  David Cameron will struggle to win his referendum. If he loses, the result will be messy at best and at worst disastrous

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  Blue on blue

  It’s off to the Khyber Pass for Tories who play dirty over the next four months

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  The real danger of Brexit

  Leaving the EU would hurt Britain—and would also deal a terrible blow to the West

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  The meaning of Brexit

  An interview with Ian Bremmer

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  A Brexit backgrounder

  The key questions, charted

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  A tale of two cities

  Britain's great European divide is really about education and class

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  Boris Johnson is wrong

  In the 21st century, sovereignty is always relative

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• http://www.economist.com/Brexit