Justine Greening has said she believes other senior Conservative MPs also support the idea of a second referendum to end a likely parliamentary deadlock on Brexit, after she became the most high-profile Tory to endorse such a move.
The former education secretary and remain supporter said Theresa May’s Chequers plan “in practice suits no one” and would be rejected by both remainers and leavers. A new referendum would provide “a route forwards”, she said.
Writing in the Times, the MP for Putney said the “only solution is to take the final Brexit decision out of the hands of deadlocked politicians” by letting voters choose from three options: May’s final deal, a no-deal Brexit or staying in the EU.
Greening proposed a system using first and second-preference votes to ensure the preferred model achieved more then 50% of the final vote. [...]
Also on Monday, May suffered another resignation in protest at her Chequers plan. Scott Mann, the MP for North Cornwall, stepped down as parliamentary private secretary to the Treasury, saying he could not support a “watered-down Brexit”. [...]
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