“If my party leaders say that if we go into government after the next election, there will be an EU referendum, then I think the party will rise again and get a really great victory, just as the Conservatives did in the UK.”

The Finns are the only major party flirting with the idea of leaving the European Union.

Juha Sipilä, the country’s Prime Minister responded to the British vote with a call for continuity. “The European project will continue,” he said in a speech in which he described the result as “undeniably a disappointment”.

Petteri Orpo, Finland’s Finance Minister and leader of the National Coalition Party said on Twitter that he was confident Finland and other EU countries could “find a common path to the future” despite the “disappointing” British decision.

SWEDEN - a "Swexit"

The anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats renewed calls for a UK-style EU referendum on Monday, but even they conceded that they didn’t expect such a “Swexit” vote to happen any time soon.

“In the short term, I don’t think it’s very likely,” Mattias Karlsson, who leads the party in the Swedish parliament, said of the possibility of forcing through a vote. “But you could have said the same some years back in the UK.”