Voters' View

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32233, 27 February 1970, Page 13

Voters' View

(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, February 26. Three of every four voters in Britain believe that the country will go into the Common Market, according to the results of a nationwide opinion poll published today. The poll was conducted by the Opinion Research Centre on behalf of the British Council of the European Movement, an organisation which supports Britain’s application. Its patrons are the three main political leaders, the Prime Minister (Mr Harold Wilson), the Leader of the Conservative Opposition (Mr Edward Heath) and Mr Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberal Party leader. People interviewed in the poll were asked: “Regardless of whether you your-

self are in favour of the . European Common Market, do you think that one day Britain will join?’’ Replies were: “Yes,” 76 per cent; “No,” 13 per cent; “Don’t know,” 11 per cent. Mr Dennis Walwyn Jones, director of the British Council of the European Movement, said today: “It is obviously important that three-quarters of the electorate believe that Britain will one day enter the Common Market. But there is still anxiety among voters about the increases in living costs that will follow Britain’s admission into the European community.” A recent poll by the Opinion Research Centre showed, however, that 72 per cent of the electorate did not want Britain to join the Market.