London borough 'has most Brexit support in Britain'

Backing Brexit: Havering town hall
Mark Chandler29 February 2016

An east London borough is the most eurosceptic part of the country, according to analysis by pollsters YouGov.

The company has crunched data from its profiles of 80,000 British people ahead of the EU referendum and has reached the conclusion that support for the Out camp is highest in Havering.

In contrast, the boroughs of Lambeth, Camden, Southwark, Hackney and Brent are all in the top 10 areas of Britain for Europhiles, the analysis claimed.

YouGov made its calculations based on the average net support for leaving the EU in each region it had enough profile data for.

Top 10 Eurosceptic areas

1. Havering

2. Peterborough

3. Bracknell Forest

4. Blackpool

5. Blackburn with Darwen

6. Southend on Sea

7. Warrington

8. South Tyneside

9. Sandwell

10. Cumbria

Last month, Havering council became the first local authority in the country to vote to leave the EU, during a symbolic debate at its town hall.

In a statement on its website, YouGov said: “The euroscepticism of various areas partly correlates with lower income but euroscepticism also has strongholds in the more wealthy, Tory shires.”

YouGov, which has put together an interactive map of its findings, said support for remaining in the EU is almost always concentrated in smaller, urban areas.

The EU referendum will be held on Thursday, June 23.

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