Britain and the EU: In or Out?

Only one in three Britons wants UK to stay in EU

By Jim Pickard, Chief Political Correspondent

This article was first published on February 17 2013

David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg have an uphill struggle before any EU referendum according to a poll that says only one in three would vote to stay in the bloc.

The findings, which are likely to spark alarm in pro-European circles, suggest that anti-Brussels sentiment is sweeping through the British public.

Given an in-out referendum on EU membership tomorrow, 50 per cent would vote “out” against 33 per cent “in” and 17 per cent who would not vote either way, according to the poll by Harris Interactive for the Financial Times.

Mr Cameron, who had resisted calls to hold a referendum, finally ...