British support for leaving the European Union has surged, according to two telephone opinion surveys published a week before the June 23 referendum, with one pollster putting support for "Leave" at a more than three-year high, according to the Daily Mail.

The Ipsos MORI poll of 1,257 adults across Britain from June 11-14 showed 51 percent of all voters wanted to leave the bloc and 49 percent wanted to stay.

But, when filtered for those likely and registered to vote, the poll showed 53 percent would vote to leave and 47 to remain - the highest support for the 'Leave' campaign recorded by the pollster in more than three years.

A separate phone poll by Survation showed 'Leave' ahead on 45 percent, up 7 percentage points from its last poll on May 25 and ahead for the first time since the poll began in February. Support for "Remain" dipped 2 percentage points to 42 percent with 13 percent undecided. The poll surveyed 1,104 people.

Of the seven most recently published polls this week, six showed the Leave campaign in the lead, a trend pollsters said showed that the opponents of Britain's 43-year-old EU membership had dominated the campaign in recent weeks.

Source : MENA