Over 50% of Britons Want to Leave EU

Over 50 percent of British people plan to vote in favour of Brexit in the June referendum, a new poll revealed.

LONDON (Sputnik) – Some 52 percent of 2,000 participants in the ORB poll conducted for The Independent on Feburary 24-25, said they would vote to leave.

Nonetheless, 81 percent of respondents said they thought leaving the European Union would pose a risk.

Last week, British Prime Minister David Cameron struck a deal with his 27 fellow EU leaders on reforms to be implemented in an effort to keep the United Kingdom in the bloc. The agreement was concluded following European Council talks in Brussels.

The deal paved the way for a UK in/out referendum (Brexit referendum), scheduled for June 23. The February 19 agreement to revise the bloc will only come into force if the British people opt for a future inside the European Union.

Cameron pledged to hold a referendum on the issue of Britain’s EU membership as part of his party’s campaign during the general elections in May 2015.

Ahead of the vote, Cameron was seeking to revise the terms of his country's membership in the bloc having outlined a number of demands to Brussels, including stripping the euro of its single official EU currency status, and protecting the British economy by keeping eurozone members away from non-eurozone countries’ affairs.

After last week’s agreement with the European Union, Cameron said the deal delivers on all of his reform commitments and called on the British people to vote in favour of staying within the European Union as that would make Britain safer and stronger.