Bad news for UKIP and the British far-right: British support for staying in EU rises to 55 percent
British support for staying in the European Union has risen to 55 percent, up 9 percentage points from two years ago, according to a Pew Research Center survey.
British support for staying inside the EU rose to 55 percent from 50 percent a year ago and 46 percent in 2013, Pew said. The poll showed 36 percent of Britons wanted to leave.
Support for the EU in Britain was strongest among 18-29 year-olds: 69 percent of them wanted to stay in while 25 percent wanted to leave. British people over 50 years old were the most skeptical age group about membership.
Despite the rise in support for membership, British people are more skeptical about the bloc than five other major EU members surveyed - Poland, Italy, Spain, Germany and France.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/03/us-britain-eu-poll-idUSKBN0OJ0N420150603
A strong majority of young people want to stay in the EU, while roughly half of older British agree. People on the left of the ideological spectrum are much more likely to want to remain than those on the right, as are people with a college degree compared with those who did not graduate from college.
http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/06/02/faith-in-european-project-reviving/
Things not looking good for UKIP these days but they still have a couple of years before the national referendum on UK leaving the EU which will be held in 2017.
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