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Voters favouring Brexit in sister dailies’ poll

A poll has revealed voters on two sister dailies’ patches are edging towards voting for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.

The Eastern Daily Press and East Anglian Daily Times’ latest snapshot survey shows 39pc in favour of a Brexit, compared to 30pc who want to stay in the European Union and 21pc undecided.

In February a poll by the Archant titles put leave at 38pc four points ahead of remain 34pc, with 28pc saying they were undecided –although there were slight differences in survey methods.

The results of the latest poll were revealed on Monday, and a further survey is now planned closer to the 23 June vote.

The poll provided a splash for the EDP on Monday

The poll provided a splash for the EDP on Monday

Archant group political editor Annabelle Dickson said: “With our network of district reporters we were in a strong position to collect a wide snapshot of people’s views from our rural market towns, coastal resorts and larger urban centres.

“We conducted a similar poll in February so we have been able to chart how people’s attitudes have shifted since then.”

She added: “We also have a packed schedule of features which will run across our titles and on our websites over the coming weeks delving into some of the key issues for our region. We plan to repeat our online Q&A which we pioneered during last year’s general election.

“Reporters, news editors, subs and editors are also set to work through the night to provide live coverage as the votes are counted across the patch on 23 June and 24 June, and to pull together a results edition as people wake up on the Friday morning.”

In March, a poll by the Express & Star, Wolverhampton, revealed four out of five of its readers were planning to vote for the UK to leave the EU.

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  • May 18, 2016 at 9:31 am
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    Readers of the East Anglian Daily Times and the Eastern Daily Press (or those of them who cared to express an opinion) are mostly in favour of leaving the EU. Who’d have thunk it?

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  • May 18, 2016 at 9:37 am
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    Can’t say I’m surprised. Local newspapers show the reality that, whatever their original feelings on the issue, people are outraged by the Establishment’s blatant attempt to maintain the status quo for its own ends.

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  • May 18, 2016 at 2:29 pm
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    Does anyone have the actual figures of how many people voted rather than giving a percentage split of the result? I suspect it was the usual couple of thousand website readers, which is hardly a fair or proportionate snapshot of the county’s population.

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  • May 18, 2016 at 3:18 pm
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    ‘District reporters’? I’m impressed anybody out there still has them. I used to be one until I got rationalised. That lost us circa 2,000 readers a night…

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  • May 19, 2016 at 11:06 am
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    Not surprising. I have an outpost of the family in Norfolk and they’re as racist and Daily Mail as it gets. Finding the traffic rather congested on a recent trip to Diss, one proclaimed, ‘It’s all the immigrants’ fault, of course.’

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  • June 6, 2016 at 3:54 pm
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    Would you Brits like a cream pie to the face along with your 51% to 49% NO Brexit vote?
    Because it’s coming and you know it’s coming.
    Your usurer masters will never let you leave..

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