<P> Both the BBC and ITV provided coverage throughout the following day, and the BBC programme was presented by David Dimbleby and David Butler . There were several programmes throughout the day . Part of the coverage was repeated to mark the 30th anniversary of the referendum in June 2005, and was also shown to mark the 40th anniversary in June 2015 on the BBC Parliament channel and was to be shown again to mark the 41st anniversary ahead of the 2016 EU Referendum . </P> <P> On Friday 6 June 1975 at 18: 30 BST the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, gave his reaction outside 10 Downing Street as counting continued, although by this point the result was clear: </P> <P>' The verdict has been given by a vote with a bigger majority than has been received by any Government in any general election . Nobody in Britain or the wider world should have any doubt about its meaning . It was a free vote, without constraint, following a free democratic campaign conducted constructively and without rancour . It means that fourteen years of national argument are over . It means that all those who have had reservations about Britain's commitment should now join wholeheartedly with our partners in Europe, and our friends everywhere to meet the challenge confronting the whole nation .' </P> <P> Enoch Powell gave this comment to the result in a newspaper a few days after the referendum: </P>

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