Sam Gyimah: second Brexit referendum best option for both sides

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Sam Gyimah: second Brexit referendum best option for both sides

Universities minister who quit over May’s Brexit plan says people’s vote could avert chaos

Nadeem Badshah
Sat 1 Dec 2018 10.20 GMT

Sam Gyimah, the universities minister who resigned in protest at the prime minister’s Brexit plan and pledged to vote against it, has said a second referendum could be the most sensible path for both leave and remain supporters, and dismissed Theresa May’s agreement with Brussels as a “deal in name only”.

The Conservative MP, who on Friday became the seventh minister to quit Theresa May’s government over Brexit, called for a vote to gauge the public’s mood if May loses the meaningful vote in parliament on 11 December.

He said the deal May had brokered with the European Union would “cripple our interests for decades to come” and a second referendum could avert “chaos”.

“There is a blocking minority in the House of Commons for almost every possible option which means that letting the people decide, now that we know more, might be the most sensible path for both leavers and remainers,” Gyimah told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme on Saturday.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/dec/01/sam-gyimah-second-brexit-referendum-best-option-for-both-sides

[hlthe2b]

1. If only we could correct our BIG BLUNDER with a REDO as well...

I do hope the Brits go for the re-vote, though.

[brush]

2. Perfidious albion. Wonder if the European Union would want them back...

wondering if they'll do it again?

There is the mitigating factor though—Putin and his bots did meddle and the leavers fell for it.

Perhaps some charges are warranted for the Brits who led the charge to leave.