British MP Murder Helping Bid to Stay in EU

Campaigning in Britain is in its final phase ahead of Thursday’s referendum on EU membership as polls show the "Remain" camp gaining, a possible indication of how the murder of anti-Brexit lawmaker Jo Cox by a suspected right-wing extremist may be tipping the balance in favor of keeping the status quo.

“I think it spooked a lot of voters, a lot of wavering voters,” said Andrew Hawkins, head of ComRes, a London market research firm whose latest poll suggests support for staying in the EU is rising among voters who had previously described themselves as undecided.

Until the middle of last week, the ComRes poll showed the "Leave" campaign gaining momentum, narrowing its lag behind the "Remain" camp from to just one percentage point. “But it’s strongly suggested that momentum has been brought to a halt by the events of Thursday,” Hawkins told VOA.

“It put them off wanting to be associated with the sort of people who may have been a bit more sympathetic to the sort of thing we saw on Thursday even if there are other issues like the mental health of the assailant that was involved in it as well,” he said......http://www.voanews.com/content/british-pm-murder-helping-bid-to-stay-in-eu/3383791.html
20/6/16
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