And even if one were to take place, there’s every reason to believe it would deepen, not resolve, the sense of crisis and acrimony.
It is as if it had become a vehicle to help Blair redeem his reputation and popularity, lost after the Iraq War.
I fear that we would lose too many good colleagues to a Remain coalition in the south, and would not pick up enough Leave-voting seats in the midlands and the north.
ConservativeHome is very dubious that, assuming a poll is deliverable, the Party can win a healthy majority without already having delivered Brexit.
It is time for the Commons to stop telling us what it’s against and to show what it’s for, which ought to be: this deal.
It may not be agreed at all with the EU – and if it is the numbers in the Commons are very tight indeed by our calculation.
We can begin to see how a deal can now be agreed and then pass Parliament. But the obstacles are still formidable.
“We have to move on. We have to find a way forward. And there’s now only one way. ‘Put it to the people’.”
The Government’s policy of reminding the electorate that it is keeping faith with the largest democratic exercise in our country’s political history is correct.
Brexit is an important issue, but it should not be an all-consuming and indefinite issue at the expense of other priorities which shape people’s lives.
The Liberal Democrat leader rows back on earlier comments after Ridge suggests her support for another referendum is dishonest.
The ‘remain and reform’ mantra was implausible to begin with, but the choice of new EU Commission President fatally undermines it.
It troubles me that Jeremy Hunt called for a second referendum – a message which gives aid and succour to the SNP.
Will pro-EU voters ditch the Lib Dems in favour of a Labour Party that has been dragged only reluctantly to a mushier, more confused version of the position?
In 2017, 51 MPs were returned with majorities of less than a thousand. That’s 51 results potentially determined by an extra hour on the doorstep,