Well… it could hardly make things any more confusing than they are right now.
Conservative MP Justine Greening, who serves the constituency of Putney, has called for a second referendum on whether or not the United Kingdom should leave the European Union.
Greening, who was the Secretary for Education between 2016 and 2018, has called Theresa May’s Brexit White Paper “a fudge I can’t support,” alleging that the deal contains “the worst of both worlds.”
Amid the resignations of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson Brexit Secretary David Davis last week, Greening has concluded that the “only solution is to take the final Brexit decision out of the hands of deadlocked politicians”.
With mere months to go before the March 2019 deadline, it is still unclear to what extent Britain intends to remain within the customs union and single market, and even less clear what the final answer will be with regard to a hard border on the island of Ireland.
Writing in the Times, Greening has proposed a second Brexit referendum with three options, with the electorate allowed to express a first and second preference. The options she has proposed are May’s Brexit deal as proposed last week, a “no deal” Brexit, or a reversal of the original referendum result — meaning that the UK would remain in the EU.
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