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LONDON (Reuters) – Half of British voters support a referendum on a relationship with the European Union in the EU, Sky News reported on Monday, citing its The poll shows 40 percent opposed to a vote, while 10 percent did not know.
With less than eight months left until Prime Minister Theresa May, who is grappling with a rebellion in her party, struggles to strike a deal with the bloc.
"No-deal" Brexit would have seen the world's fifth largest economy crash out of the EU on March 29, 2019, a step that could spook the financial markets and dislocate trade flows
The Sky poll showed 78 percent of voters thought May be government was doing a bad job of negotiating Brexit , up 23 percentage points from Ma rch. Just 10 percent thought the government was doing a good job.
Voters were split on whether 40 percent said it would be good and 51 percent said it would be bad.
In the June 23, 2016 referendum, 17.4 million voters, or 51.9 percent of the cast, backed leaving the EU while 16.1 million voters, or 48.1 percent of cast votes, backed staying. Many opinion polls were wrong about the result.
When asked to choose between three options – May it deal, a no deal or staying in the EU – 48 percent said they would prefer to stay in the EU, 27 percent wanted to leave No deal and 13 percent would opt for the government's deal.
Sky Data interviewed a nationally representative sample of 1,466 Sky customers online July 20-23, 2018. Data is weighted to the profile of the population.
(Writing by Guy Faulconbridge, additional reporting by Subrat Patnaik in Bengaluru, editing by Alistair Smout)
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