jonathan buckmaster/getty tory mps peter bone, tom pursglove and philip hollobone counted the ballot papers  top stories direct to your inbox subscribe invalid email sign up to receive our rundown of the day'sdirect to your inbox when you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. our privacy notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. you can unsubscribe at any time.  the biggest vote on this country’s ties to ­brussels for 40 years saw 80 per cent say they no longer want to be in europe, the ­daily express can reveal. it marks a huge leap forward in this news­paper’s crusade to get britain out of the eu. some 14,581 people voted – 11,706 of them want the uk to quit compared with 2,725 who want to remain part of the eu. the mini-referendum – the first on the issue since 1975 – was organised by two senior tory backbenchers and a prospective tory mp. they believe the overwhelming result, which will be presented to david cameron today, will force him to bring forward his planned in-or-out vote on the uk’s future in europe to next year instead of 2017. the landslide result heaps further pressure on the prime minister to act as it comes just days after european commission president jean-claude juncker compared british membership of the eu to a doomed romance and suggested it was time for britain to get a divorce. the tory poll was organised across three neighbouring parliamentary constituencies by peter bone, mp for wellingborough, philip hollobone, mp for kettering, and tom pursglove, who is standing as tory candidate for corby and east northamptonshire at this year’s general election.  getty the results of the poll confirm that an in-or-out referendum is necessary in 2017, if not earlier  following the count, carried out in the london offices of the daily express yesterday, mr bone said: “eight out of 10 people who took part want to come out of europe – that is extraordinary. it is very, very, very clear they want to come out.” the turnout, he added, shows there is a “huge interest” in having a nationwide referendum. “people actually bothering to put x on a ballot paper clearly shows that people have been bothered to take part in a referendum and there is a huge interest in it,” he added. “only the conservatives will give us the referendum. ukip can’t and labour and the lib dems won’t.” mr hollobone said he expected the result would be reflected nationwide. “my gut feeling is that there would be a majority of people voting to leave across the country,” he said. “maybe not on the scale we have seen in north northamptonshire but a majority nevertheless. that is something i wouldn’t have said 10 years ago.”  we will not support a ­government that does not want a referendum peter bone
message is loud and clear: britons want to leave eu