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An August survey by the U.K. in a Changing Europe, a research program based at King’s College London, found 88 percent of 102 respondents on its Brexit Policy Panel thought May would still be prime minister on March 29 -- the day Britain is due to leave the bloc. They also put the chances of a no-deal Brexit at about 50 percent. [...]
In the survey, 42 percent of respondents thought the U.K. would have to make do with a standard free-trade deal with the EU -- even though May has said that would be insufficient.
Some 85 percent of the academics said the U.K. would leave the EU as planned on March 29, and almost three quarters thought there’s unlikely to be a second referendum on Brexit. Pressure is mounting on opposition Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn to support one, though fewer than a third of respondents thought the party would change its stance. [...]