Tag: second Brexit referendum

• Monday, May 27th 2019 - 08:09 UTC

  Corbyn calls for a general election or a second Brexit referendum

  

  Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said the British public should be asked again to give its verdict on Brexit, either through a general election or a second referendum.

• Saturday, April 13th 2019 - 07:53 UTC

  Hammond admits the idea of a second Brexit referendum is very likely

  

  The idea of a second Brexit referendum is very likely to be put before Britain's parliament again although the government remains opposed to any new plebiscite, the British finance minister said on Friday.

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 06:47 UTC

  Brexit: what are the options next Monday; EU ready for a UK “no deal crash out”

  

  With British lawmakers rejecting Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal for a third on Friday what could happen next? Britain is left with three general directions: back a deal, end up leaving with no deal or negotiate a long delay to work out a new strategy.

• Sunday, March 24th 2019 - 05:50 UTC

  London flooded by anti-Brexit protestors demanding a new referendum

  

  Anti-Brexit protesters flooded into central London by the hundreds of thousands on Saturday, demanding that Britain's Conservative-led government hold a new referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union. The “People's Vote March” snaked from Park Lane and other locations to converge on the U.K. Parliament, where the fate of Brexit will be decided in the coming weeks.

• Saturday, March 23rd 2019 - 06:49 UTC

  Scotland First Minister leads Saturday march in London demanding a second Brexit referendum

  

  Politicians including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon are to join thousands of Scots on a march in London to demand a second Brexit referendum. Bus-loads of protesters travelled through the night from across Scotland for the People's Vote event.

• Friday, December 7th 2018 - 10:12 UTC

  Calls for a second Brexit referendum in the next 22 months to avoid Parliament gridlock

  

  Parliament will be “gridlocked” no matter what the Brexit deal, former Cabinet minister Justine Greening warned as she urged the Government to “ask the people” to break the impasse. The Tory former education secretary told MPs a referendum could be held in the next 22 weeks as she derided Theresa May’s current plan.

• Thursday, November 8th 2018 - 08:33 UTC

  Blair calls for a second Brexit referendum: the great nations of Europe must stick together

  

  Leaving the European Union without a deal would be “absurd” and the whole process of Brexit can still be stopped, Tony Blair has claimed. The former prime minister said the British people should be given the chance to vote again on whether to remain in the EU because otherwise they faced either a “pointless” or a “painful” version of Brexit.

• Saturday, October 20th 2018 - 08:42 UTC

  Ireland insists a Brexit transition period is not an alternative for backstop proposal

  

  An extended Brexit transition period is not an alternative to the EU’s backstop proposal, Irish premier Leo Varadkar has warned. The Taoiseach said he is open to the idea of an extension but it fails to resolve the border issue.