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| European Union referendum: pound plunges as first results come in - live | |
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| 1.47am BST | |
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| The Hartlepool result is in, and leave got 70% - more than expected. This is from the academic Caitlin Milazzo. | |
| Hartlepool - Forecast #Brexit vote 61% ,UKIP 2014 EP vote 39%, Actual vote share 70% #EURef | |
| 1.44am BST | |
| 01:44 | |
| Perhaps Lindsay Lohan has been one of those using Google. (See 1.43pm.) | |
| #REMAIN Sorry, but #KETTERING where are you&why is this woman @BBCNews speaking on people rather than TELLING us what happens if UK LEAVES? | |
| 1.43am BST | |
| 01:43 | |
| According to the Press Association, Google says there has been a more than 250% increase in the number of searches for “what happens if we leave the EU” in the past hour, as early results indicate stronger-than-expected results for Brexit campaigners. | |
| I tried it a moment ago. The top result I got was this. | |
| 1.41am BST | |
| 01:41 | |
| Unconfirmed results from Hartlepool huge for Leave | |
| 1.40am BST | |
| 01:40 | |
| Henry McDonald | Henry McDonald |
| Foyle, the constituency covering Derry city, has been the first to return a result in Northern Ireland. It was solidly pro-remain, which is hardly surprising given that it is a nationalist dominated constituency.West Tyrone, another nationalist constituency represented by Sinn Féin MP Pat Doherty, also voted for remain. | |
| Foyle results: 32, 064 votes for Remain, 8, 905 votes for Leave, 18 votes rejected. #EURefResults | |
| In “Paisley country”, aka North Antrim, they have voted solidly for Brexit. The constituency of Ian Paisley, the former first minister and founder of the Democratic Unionist party, has voted for leaving the EU with 18,782 votes for remain and 30,938 votes for leave. | |
| It is a paradox that Paisley consistently topped the poll in euro elections, worked the EU system for the benefit of Ulster farmers but was a virulent Eurosceptic. | |
| Updated | |
| at 1.42am BST | |
| 1.40am BST | |
| 01:40 | |
| Fifteen results are in so far, out of 382. | |
| Here are the results. It is the vote figures that count. | |
| Areas | Areas |
| Remain: 10 | |
| Leave: 5 | |
| Votes | Votes |
| Remain: 394,282 (48.5%) | |
| Leave: 418,809 (51.5%) | |
| 15 #EUref results in so far - Guardian 394,282 (48.5%) / Daily Mail 418,809 (51.5%) | |
| 1.38am BST | |
| 01:38 | |
| John McDonnell: Labour vote seems 'two-thirds, one-third split' | |
| Ben Quinn | |
| One after another, leading remain figures have been telling broadcasters that the result is looking close in interviews where they appear to be less optimistic than they were at about 10pm. | |
| John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, said the results were “exactly as predicted … pretty close, whichever way”, adding: “I am hoping remain will win, but I think it will be one or two percentage points either way.” | |
| He told Sky News that within the Labour vote, it appeared to be a “two-thirds, one-third split”. | |
| Defending his party leader’s handling of Labour’s campaign, McDonnell said Jeremy Corbyn was aware that the British public was “basically Eurosceptic to a certain extent but believes remain is the best thing”. | |
| “I think you will see that as the night goes on and if it is a narrow victory for remain that will demonstrate that Jeremy is in tune with the country actually.” | |
| Will Straw, who has been running the remain campaign, said: “I think it is always going to be close and it’s looking close now. | |
| “The results this evening have not been any different from the projections that had those results roughly in the margin of error.” | |
| 1.33am BST | |
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| The fall in the pound is the third biggest move on record, after the 2008 financial crisis and Black Wednesday when sterling left the Exchange Rate Mechanism: | |
| Pound move at number 3 with a bullet.... pic.twitter.com/FOC9x2tKTw | |
| But here’s a bit of perspective: | |
| #GBP has fallen from $1.50 to $1.45 in just a few hours, but recall it was at $1.40 earlier this month. Not a sterling crisis - yet... | |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 1.35am BST | |
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| 01:33 | |
| Chris Bryant says 'tosspot' Miliband to blame for state Labour is in | |
| Labour figures are also attacking each other. Talking to guests at the Stronger In referendum party, Chris Bryant, the shadow leader of the Commons, denounced Ed Miliband when he saw the former party leader being interviewed on TV. He said: | |
| I might go and punch him because he’s a tosspot and he left the party in the state it’s in. | |
| 1.31am BST | |
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| Henry McDonald | |
| The turnout figures for the four Belfast constituencies are out and they show that unionist majority areas have voted significantly more than republican districts. | |
| In republican West Belfast – a Sinn Féin stronghold – the turnout was 48%, an historic low compared to successive general and assembly elections. By contrast, the turnout in loyalist East Belfast was 66%, as it was in the more liberal South Belfast constituency. In North Belfast, where there is a sizeable republican and nationalist population, the turnout was 57%. | |
| This reflects a trend across Northern Ireland where unionists, especially working-class loyalists, appear more animated about EU-related issues – most notably on immigration – compared to working-class republicans and nationalists. Lee Reynolds, of the leave campaign, was clearly correct in terms of his analysis of working-class loyalism and this referendum: they came out to vote in unprecedented numbers. | |
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| 01:30 | |
| Andrew Sparrow | |
| You can always tell who is losing on an election night - it’s the side where they start blaming each other. Earlier, when it looked good for remain, we saw Vote Leave have a go at Nigel Farage. | |
| But now the recriminations are breaking out on the remain side, where Labour is blaming the government. This is from a party source. | |
| A significant minority of Labour voters have undoubtedly voted for Leave. After David Cameron and the Tories made this a referendum on them and their leadership, many of the areas hardest hit by this government’s unfair policies like Sunderland have taken the opportunity this referendum as a means to kick a Conservative government that is out of touch. | |
| This was a vote against a government that has failed to rebalance the economy, and has failed to deliver the Northern Powerhouse that it keeps promising. | |
| Our private polling has consistently shown from the beginning of the campaign that about two thirds of Labour voters supported remain and we expect that to be borne out in the results. A clear majority of Labour voters support remaining in Europe, unlike Tory voters. | |
| And this is from the Sunday Times’s Tim Shipman. | |
| Remain camp already eating each other. Angela Eagle slagging off govt. You can bet Dave will blame Labour if this goes wrong. | |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 1.36am BST | |
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| This is from the Guardian’s diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour: | |
| Hartlepool ex seat of Lord Mandelson & key Remain figure, gone 70 to 30 for Leave. Project Fear cut no ice. | |