BROMSGROVE came out resoundingly in favour of leaving the EU in last night’s referendum, despite MP Sajid Javid’s support of the Remain campaign.

79.4 per cent of the electorate cast their votes, with 58,855 voting on whether to remain a member of the EU or leave the EU, and only 40 ballot papers rejected across the district.

As the polls closed at 10am and votes were still being counted into the early hours of the morning at the Dolphin Centre, Kevin Dicks, chief executive of Bromsgrove District Council, said: "I really don't know what will happen. It's just too close to call”, but the result in the end was clear.

At around 4am this morning it was announced that 26,252 people voted to remain in the EU, while 32,563 voted to leave, giving the Leave campaign a 55.4 per cent majority in the district, higher than it was across the entire UK, which voted to leave by a majority of 51.9 per cent.

On Twitter, Sajid Javid said: “The British people have delivered their instructions. We will make it work.”

Mr Javid had initially expressed his reluctance to join the Remain campaign in February, saying: “If this year’s referendum were a vote on whether to join in the first place, I wouldn’t hesitate to stand up and say Britain would be better off staying out.

“But the question we’re faced with is not about what we should have done 43 years ago. It’s about what we should do now, in 2016.

“That’s why, with a heavy heart and no enthusiasm, I shall be voting for the UK to remain a member of the European Union.”

However he has campaign actively on behalf of the Remain campaign, even joining the campaign’s battle bus as it visited Bromsgrove.

In light of the EU referendum result, prime minister David Cameron has handed in his resignation, and the future now seems uncertain for a number of the MPs who supported the Remain campaign.