More Brits support UK membership of EU
A new survey says more Britons support the country's membership of the European Union than want to leave the bloc.
According to the survey ordered by the Daily Mail newspaper, fifty-four percent of respondents in the poll said they would vote to remain in the EU if a referendum was held tomorrow, a drop of 2 percentage points from December's survey.
Meanwhile, thirty-six percent said they would vote to leave, up 1 percentage point from last month, while ten percent were undecided, up 2 percentage points.
Similar opinion polls in Britain over the past months have suggested that out of the Britons who have already made up their minds about EU membership, more people favor leaving the EU than remaining in the bloc.
This comes as British Prime Minister David Cameron is pushing for a deal from other EU leaders before holding a referendum on Britain's membership of the bloc which he could call as early as June this year.
Cameron was in Brussels on Friday, where he said that a proposal to curb European immigration to Britain was "not good enough" but he saw progress on a deal to persuade British voters to back continued EU membership.
The main problem hampering a deal is Cameron's insistence that EU migrants employed in Britain must wait four years before claiming welfare payments such as tax credits or housing benefits.
EU membership has long been a contentious topic in Britain. Eurosceptics, who believe the UK would be better off outside the political and economic union, seek the UK withdrawal from the EU.
Now the government is set to hold the referendum this year.
The latest poll surveyed 1,006 British adults by telephone between Jan. 22 and Jan. 24.
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