Most Britons back staying in EU, but opposition growing - poll

More Britons support the country's membership of the European Union than want to leave the bloc, the latest opinion poll on the issue showed on Saturday, even as opposition to membership grew slightly compared with last month's survey. Other recent opinion polls in Britain have suggested that out of the Britons who have already made up their minds about EU membership, more people favour leaving the EU than remaining in the bloc. Fifty-four percent of respondents in the ComRes poll carried out fo