UK parliament 'very likely' to consider new Brexit referendum, says British finance minister

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British finance minister Phillip Hammond said Friday he believed it was 'very likely' a second Brexit referendum would be put to parliament.

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.

Prime Minister Theresa May has so far failed to get her own Conservative Party behind the Brexit divorce deal she agreed with other European Union leaders last year, forcing her to ask the bloc for a delay and to start talks with Labour about how to break the impasse in parliament. Hammond said about six months would be needed to hold a referendum, so if parliament voted in a couple of months' time to make one a condition of approving a Brexit deal, there would be no time before Britain is due to leave the EU on Oct. 31.

Parliament has previously rejected the idea of a new referendum and other possible solutions the Brexit impasse. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said on Thursday that Brexit had pushed business uncertainty"through the roof."

 

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Just as well as the one concluded was the result of fraud perpetrated by the likes of NigelFarage...

traitors, you know

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