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Result boosts those calling for their own vote on EU membership

BRITAIN’S vote to leave the EU strengthened Eurosceptics across the continent yesterday.

Denmark’s People’s Movement, uniting the Communist Party and the red-green Unity List (EL) party, hailed the landmark “victory” against the “undemocratic EU system” and called for a Danish referendum.

EL spokeswoman Pernille Skipper said: “We are pleased at the British results, not least on behalf of the British employees who now have better opportunities to combat the driving down of wages and poverty.

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