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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Dan Haygarth

Second English village to hold vote on leaving UK

A second English village will hold a symbolic referendum on leaving the UK in protest over plans to host asylum seekers at a nearby military base.

Barnham in Suffolk could follow in the footsteps of Piddington, Oxfordshire, where opposition to the government’s plans to house migrants at Ministry of Defence (MoD) Bicester saw 90 per cent of locals vote to leave the UK in an unofficial referendum held in September.

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