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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/06/19/brexit-polls-show-swing-remain-campaigning-resumes/86110136/by: Jane Onyanga-Omara
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LONDON — Two new polls suggest that support has swung back toward remaining in the European Union as campaigning resumed Sunday following the murder of British lawmaker Jo Cox.
A poll conducted Friday and Saturday by market research firm Survation for the Mail on Sunday said 45% of the respondents wanted to stay in the 28-member EU and 42% wanted to leave.
A survey by YouGov for the Sunday Times conducted Thursday and Friday said 44% wanted to remain and 43% wanted to leave.
The poll by Survation is the first since Cox, 41, a Labour member of parliament, was shot and stabbed in the street after she met with constituents in the village of Birstall in West Yorkshire in northern England on Thursday. A local man, Thomas Mair, 52, appeared in court charged with her murder Saturday.
A third of the responses to the YouGov poll were gathered before the death of Cox, who supported remaining in the EU.
YouGov said it does not think the strengthened support for remain is connected to her murder. “The underlying figures suggest the movement may be more to do with people worrying about the economic impact of leaving the European Union,”
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