Pro-Brexit Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson, said it was a ‘surprisingly big margin’ while remain campaigner MP Robert Buckland said he was ‘disappointed’.
Tomlinson told BBC that he had a ‘sneaking feeling’ that the leave campaign would win in his constituency. “That’s what it felt like when I talked to people – but not by this margin. Some people wanted to embrace the global economy; some people felt that what they had voted for in the 70s now wasn’t what was there today. The country has an appetite for change.”
Buckland, the Conservative MP told BBC the result was not ‘about personalities’. “I passionately believe that we should be a member of the EU and have felt that for many, many years and I’ve made no secret of that – but it’s not about me,” he said.
