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Boris Johnson, Gisela Stuart and Andrea Leadsom during a Brexit debate in Wembley Arena on Tuesday night.
Bookmaker Ladbrokes currently gives the Leave vote just a 24% chance of winning, while William Hill is similarly unconvinced, pegging a Brexit likelihood at only 25%. This is down from last week, when the likelihood of a Leave vote hovered around the 40% mark.
Despite Leave's betting odds getting worse by the hour, gamblers are still overwhelmingly betting on it happening, according to William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe:
"[Although] 66% of all the money gambled with William Hill on the outcome has been for Remain with bets of up to £100,000 staked, but 69% of all individual bets placed have been for Leave. There has been worldwide betting interest - we have taken bets from Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Canada, Finland, Holland, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, to name just a few countries!"
He added that after her performance in the Brexit debate at Wembley Area on Tuesday, Scottish Conservative Ruth Davidson now looked like a future Tory leader and that the number of Leave bets had not affected the odds (emphasis ours):
Ruth Davidson made a big impact, with a significant flurry of support for her throughout the debate to be the next Tory leader - we had to shorten her odds twice, eventually shortening them from 33/1 to 16/1. And while we took plenty of bets on the outcome of the Referendum during the debate - 70% of them for Leave, they were of moderate size and we have not changed the odds from 2/9 Remain, 3/1 Leave.
Here are the current odds of a Leave vote from the main bookmakers:
- William Hill - 3/1
- Ladbrokes - 3/1
- Skybet - 3/1
- Paddy Power - 3/1
- Coral - 3/1
- Betfred - 3/1
- Betfair - 3/1
Although the odds favour a Remain vote, the Eu referendum is still far too close to call. A recent Survation poll showed the Remain and Leave sides virtually neck and neck with just two days to go until the vote.
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