Brexit: UK set to go to polls in EU referendum

TIL Desk/World/UK-Britain will make history today when it goes in for referendum in a few hours from now on whether it should remain in the European Union. According to media reports, the result could be uncomfortably close.

There has only been one other UK-wide referendum on the issue of EU membership, in 1975 when the country voted to stay in the European Community. The question in the ballot papers this time, with the option to answer Yes or No, will be: “Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?”

Eligible voters include anyone over the age of 18 who is a British citizen resident in the UK and UK nationals who have lived abroad for less than 15 years. Citizens of Ireland, Malta and Cyprus resident in the UK can vote as can Commonwealth citizens resident in the UK and Gibraltar, including Indians.