The Greater Manchester mayor then says he would support one if the alternative was a No Deal Brexit.
The People’s Vote is bound up with New Labour and talk of a new party. This does nothing to help it among Tory MPs…and much to harm it among Labour ones.
He evidently believes that the Government will teeter before he does, and that his backbench Europhiles lack the gumption to move against him.
What exactly are Benn, Cooper and Boles, Creasy, Grieve, Reeves and Corbyn proposing?
A first-time voter in 2022 will have been born in 2004, a year after the start of the conflict, and have no memory of weapons of mass destruction…
The object of the exercise is to absorb within a stable democratic practice a new element which, if unabsorbed, may have fatal effects.
The only way of ruling it out is to change the table itself: in other words, to abandon Brexit, or prepare to – as Remainers should admit.
Today, May is swinging towards her Party’s leavers. The logic of the Chancellor’s position, and that of his allies, is to block her – or try to.
The suffrage movement fought for those of all backgrounds to have the vote. This cannot be called into question for the sake of political gain.
Nine in ten respondents to our survey are opposed – just as they were in December.
Farage urged everyone to prepare for a second referendum, and concluded: “Next time, as far as I’m concerned, it’s no more Mr Nice Guy.”
It would be swift, fair and democratic solution to this sorry saga, allowing us to get back to meeting the challenges that helped fuelled the Brexit vote in the first place.
Breaking her promise in such a way would enrage many voters, divide her Party, and cost the nation dearly in lost Brexit opportunities.
Corbyn is intensely vague on the topic – and is doing his very best to remain so.
We want to learn from what other Parliaments have done when faced with difficult choices. Such an assembly would report back within ten weeks.