MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Excluding undecided respondents, 54 percent of UK residents are in favor of leaving the European Union, according to the ORB poll, the results of which were released on Thursday.
"These results show that the UK really is the black sheep of the family," Johnny Heald, Managing Director of ORB International said as quoted in the Thursday ORB release, adding that the "Prime Minister’s negotiations with his European colleagues appear to be crucial in avoiding Brexit [Britain leaving the EU]."
In contrast, over 64 percent of people across all 14 EU countries polled said they would prefer to stay in the bloc. Seventeen percent of respondents said they felt closer to Europe over the past 12 months.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron vowed to hold a referendum on the United Kingdom's membership in the European Union by the end of 2017. Ahead of the vote, Cameron is seeking to revise the terms of UK’s membership in the bloc.
The prime minister has outlined four demands to the European Union, including shifting power away from Brussels back to the UK national legislature, exempting Britain from the EU "superstate" principle, denouncing the euro as a single official EU currency, and protecting the UK economy by keeping Eurozone members away from the non-Eurozone countries’ affairs.
