Remain camp inches ahead as Brexit vote enters final stretch

Polling stations shut at 10pm with torrential downpours forecast for south east

Vote remain flags outside a pub in Clerkenwell, London Pic: Getty

Voting in Britain's referendum on whether to stay or quit the country's membership of the European Union has entered its final hours.

Polling stations, which opened at 7am this morning, will close at 10pm and counting will begin immediately.

The bitterly-contested referendum has been on a knife-edge,although a last minute poll will give the Remain side some comfort. The Ipsos Mori poll for the Evening Standard newspaper had In side on 52 per ...