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First Brexit Poll Since Jo Cox Killing Has ‘Remain’ in Lead

  • 45% back staying in EU, 42% want Brexit, Survation survey says
  • Cameron says ‘no turning back’ if voters choose to leave EU
Tributes including flowers calling for a 'remain' vote in the EU referendum are piled in remembrance against a photograph of slain Labour MP Jo Cox in Parliament Square central London on June 18, 2016.

Tributes including flowers calling for a 'remain' vote in the EU referendum are piled in remembrance against a photograph of slain Labour MP Jo Cox in Parliament Square central London on June 18, 2016.

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The campaign to keep the U.K. in the European Union led in the first opinion poll fully conducted since Thursday’s slaying of politician Jo Cox as the debate resumed five days before the referendum.

Staying in the bloc won 45 percent support in the Survation telephone poll of 1,001 adults on Friday and Saturday for the Mail on Sunday. Leaving was endorsed by 42 percent.