LONDON — Britain’s vote to leave the European Union has left no shortage of losers: Prime Minister David Cameron, the pound sterling and the European Union itself. But it also exposed a familiar culprit: the pollsters.
On the eve of the vote, most late polls showed the Remain side edging ahead. Late Thursday, the market research company YouGov put Remain up by 52 percent to 48 percent. As the voting ended on Thursday, Ipsos-Mori, another leading polling company, gave Remain an eight-percentage-point lead over the Leave side.
Even the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, Nigel Farage, a voracious euroskeptic, told Sky News ahead of the result that he thought Britain had voted to stay in the bloc. “I think that Remain might just nick it, but there isn’t much in it,” he said .... http://www.nytimes.com
