EU Referendum: Sky News On-The-Night Guide

The polls close at 10pm, there is an exit poll (which is normally very reliable), the first results start coming in about an hour or so later (usually Sunderland) and, provided the early incoming results are consistent with the exit poll, you can often get a sense of the likely result pretty soon. The EU referendum will be different. For a start, there is no official broadcasters exit poll – not because we couldn't afford it but because there was no way it could have been a fraction as acc