an extraordinary referendum campaign turnout looks to be exceptionally high and looks like remain will edge itfarage said his prediction was based on what i know from some of my friends in the financial markets who have done some big polling government minister theresa villiers who also campaigned for britain to leave told sky her instinct was that the remain side had wonopinion polls put remain in the lead by margins of 5248 or 5446 percent the surveys and farages comments pushed the pound to its highest level this year above 150 but it then plunged on the early resultsprofessor vernon bogdanor a politics expert who tutored cameron at oxford university told bbc television there was a possibility that leave would winone cant deny its a real kick to the british establishment because all three party leaders have favoured a remain vote business on the whole favoured a remain vote the financial leaders have favoured a remain vote the people have not taken their advice he saidblog 10 bogus claims that the brexit campaign should never have madeimmigration angsta vote to leave would send decades of european integration into reverse marking the first time an independent nation has broken away it would threaten to open further cracks in a grouping already reeling from successive crises over greek debt and a mass influx of refugees from syria and elsewherea vote to stay would leave the eu intact with its most freemarket proponent still a member however what began as a domestic political gambit by cameron has polarised the country and exposed wider challenges facing europe public angst over immigration and the falling living standards of many in the worlds richest regionmarred by the murder of a proeu uk politician jo cox who was shot and stabbed in the street a week ago the campaign and its divisive rhetoric highlighted the populist wave also seeping into the us election racea defiant farage said he was not conceding defeat even though he feared the result would go against himi hope i am wrong i hope i am made a fool of believing that to be the case either way whether i am right or wrong if we do stay part of this union it is doomed it is finished anyway if we fail tonight it will not be us that knocks out the first brick from the wall it will be someone else he saidif it votes to stay britain has been promised a special status exempting it from any further political integration but european leaders will still have to address a sharp rise in euroscepticism across the continenta brexit vote however would deal a potentially fatal blow to the career of cameron who called the referendum and campaigned for the country to stay in against a leave camp led by rivals from within his own conservative partythank you everyone who voted to keep britain stronger safer and better off in europe and to the thousands of remain campaigners around the uk