Northern Ireland voters would accept Boris Johnson’s new EU deal ahead of a no-deal Brexit, but a clear majority would vote to remain instead if given the choice, a new opinion poll has found.

When undecided voters are excluded, some 62% of those surveyed by LucidTalk, a Belfast polling company, said they would back the British prime minister’s withdrawal agreement over a no-deal Brexit, while 38% would prefer to crash out without a deal.

About 72%, excluding don’t knows, would vote to remain in the EU in a second referendum instead of accepting the latest version of the withdrawal agreement, if they were given that option. Just 28% would back the Johnson deal in that context.

The findings suggest an increase in the “remain” vote