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🇬🇧Leave 52%
🇪🇺Remain 48%
But in 2016 participants in the ComRes poll voted:
🇬🇧Leave 49%
🇪🇺Remain 37%
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Sounds like a big dip in Remain support until you realise only 37% of respondents voted Remain.
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That wasn’t what ComRes asked.
They asked if the result should be ‘respected’.
How do we know? Because ICM asked the latter in Jan and found 47% to 34% in favour of a second poll:
![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZcTEQ8WkAAzQnX.jpg)
1. Support for a second referendum depends on who you ask and what you ask them.
2. A poll based on larger than representative Leave support will obviously produce larger than representative Leave outcomes.
But then that doesn’t look as good on a front page.