Britain’s Top Tabloid Urges Exit From European Union
LONDON — Rupert Murdoch’s Sun tabloid, Britain’s most popular, came out on Tuesday in favor of a British exit from the European Union, as a series of opinion polls suggested that the campaign to leave the bloc is picking up support, inducing anxiety in the financial markets and in No. 10 Downing Street.
The country will decide the issue through a referendum on June 23, and there is a growing sense on both sides that the early confidence of those who support remaining in the European Union has given way to recognition that the vote could go either way, with historic if hard-to-predict consequences for Britain and the Continent.
Measuring public opinion has been difficult, both because of problems plaguing pollsters everywhere and because there is no sure way to compare this referendum with previous votes. Although different polls using different methodologies have found widely varying levels of support for staying or going, established pollsters have generally given the edge to those favoring remaining in the European Union.
But after a push by the “leave” campaign and its allies focusing on immigration and Islamist radicalism, including the possibility that Turkey and its 77 million Muslims might one day join the European Union, the polls are showing signs of a shift.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/world/europe/britains-top-tabloid-urges-exit-from-european-union.html
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