(VOVworld) – The number of British people who want to stay in the European Union has risen over the past four weeks, an online poll by market research company Opinium Research for the Observer newspaper showed on Saturday.

A car sticker with a logo encouraging people to leave the EU is seen on a car, in Llandudno, Wales, February 27, 2016. (Photo: Reuters/Phil Noble)

Some 42 percent of those surveyed wanted to remain in the EU, while 41 percent wanted to leave, the newspaper said. The poll’s result came on the threshold of a referendum in Britain over its presence in the EU. Some analysts say that the UK presence in the EU belongs to British youth’s votes in the upcoming referendum which is scheduled to take place on June 23.