Experts have estimated that if Britain votes to leave the European Union, the pound could fall by 15% against the dollar and gross-domestic-product growth could be 1 to 1.5 percentage points lower in 2017 than it would have been otherwise.
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VOTERS across Barry are going to the polls today (June 23) for the European Union referendum.
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Polling stations across the country have been “brisk and busy”, an official from the Electoral Commission has said with counting set to begin with polls closed across the country.. Your details will be available to staff at the polling station, so you just need to give your name and address to the staff inside the polling station when you arrive.
What was particularly unusual for polling day was the lack of activists outside of the region’s stations.
At the close of the poll, thousands of sealed ballot boxes are collected from schools and church halls which have been doubling up as polling stations and transported to one of 382 counting venues across the UK.
The results of the local tally counts are expected around 4 a.m. local time (11 p.m. EDT).
Most results from around the United Kingdom will come in during a frantic three hour period on Friday, between 4am and 7am.
However, early indications showed long queues snaking outside voting centres as the nation braved the storms to decide Britain’s future role in Europe.
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Counting officers for the west Midlands declare at 6am, followed by the East Midlands, and South West at 6.30am, and finally at 7am Eastern, North West and South East.
