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SUMMER rain threatened to dampen the turnout as EU refe-rain-dum finally took place after months of political wrangling, experts suggested yesterday.
Politicians left and right tried to make a last-minute splash as they posed outside polling booths, Theresa May making a late surge with the bookies for next Tory leader while Nigel Farage released a last minute video riffing off the US film title Independence Day.
A record number of voters registered to take part in the somewhat soggy polls, with the Electoral Commission putting the final totals at 46,499,537.
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
