With About A Week To Go, Brexit Debate Heats Up

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June 14, 2016

A Vote to Leave campaigner holds a placard as Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), Nigel Farage campaigns for votes to leave the European Union in the referendum on May 25, 2016 in Bolton, England, encouraging British people to vote to leave the EU on 23rd June 2016. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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With just over a week to go before the so-called Brexit vote in the UK, there is a lot of concern among opponents who do not want Britain to leave the European Union. That's because a number of new polls show increasing support for a Brexit.

An ICM poll for The Guardian found Brexit supporters are leading by 53 to 47 percent. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson looks at public opinion and also a new controversial ad from the pro-Brexit camp, with the BBC's Andrew Walker.

Guest

Andrew Walker, BBC economics correspondent. He tweets @andrewwalker167.

This segment aired on June 14, 2016.

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