LONDON — More Britons support the country's membership in the European Union than want to leave the bloc, the latest opinion poll showed on Saturday, even as opposition to membership grew slightly compared with last month's survey.
Other recent opinion polls have also 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 the respondents in the ComRes poll carried out for the Daily Mail newspaper said they would vote to remain in the EU if a referendum was held tomorrow, a drop of two percentage points from December's survey.
Thirty-six percent said they would vote to leave, up one point from last month, while 10% were undecided, up two points.
The survey result comes as Prime Minister David Cameron is pushing for an improved deal from other EU leaders before holding a referendum on Britain's membership, which he could call as early as June this year.
Cameron was in Brussels on Friday, where he said that a proposal to curb European immigration to Britain was "not good enough" but he saw progress on a deal to persuade British voters to back continued EU membership.
The latest poll surveyed 1,006 British adults by telephone between Jan 22 and 24.