Michael Turner, research director at BMG, told the newspaper: “Our polling suggests that, although there may have been a strong shift towards a vote to leave the European Union in recent weeks, the Remain camp are still very much ahead”.
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Witnesses told local media that Cox had been repeatedly shot and stabbed. Neither Britain nor the European Union as a whole is prepared for the negotiations that would follow a vote to leave and investors would face “a true landscape of uncertainties”, Axa SA Chief Executive Officer Henri de Castries said at a conference in Paris.
British businessmen in the UAE are not taking the risk of taking sides in this crucial referendum, that will affect the value of the pound, thereby strongly impacting Britons in UAE.
A referendum will be held on Thursday to decide whether Britain should leave or remain in the European Union.
Sky News television quoted unconfirmed reports from witnesses that the shooter shouted “Britain first” – possibly a reference to British sovereignty, although there is also a far-right party called Britain First.
A bitter voting campaign was on Friday suspended for a second day as the nation reeled from the death of Cox, a 41-year-old former aid worker.
Sterling has suffered since the end of previous year from a steady pricing in of risks from a Brexit – seen largely related to the shocks to economic growth and the financing of Britain’s huge current account deficit.
Shakespeare said that the Leave campaign “will have wanted to go very hard on the immigration issue in the final week of the campaign and may find it hard” to do so now.
“If you’re watching football and your team is three behind in the 90th minute of the game, it’s unlikely that there will be a turnaround and that suddenly you will win”, he said.
London’s FTSE 100 share index was down 0.71 percent to 5,924 points at 1140 GMT, while the pound reached a new two-month low against the euro. “Twenty percent of voters may change their minds, giving hope to both sides, although often undecideds (traditionally) don’t bother to vote”.
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A vote to end Britain’s 43-year-old EU membership would spook investors by undermining post-World War Two attempts at European integration and placing a question mark over the future of the United Kingdom and its €2.6 trillion economy.
