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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.

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