Financial Times: Amber Rudd says second vote ‘plausible’ if May Brexit deal dies

20 December 2018

Amber Rudd, UK work and pensions secretary, has become the first cabinet minister to spell out a path to a second Brexit referendum, saying that another vote could become “plausible” if parliament rejects Theresa May’s deal with the EU in January.

Ms Rudd told ITV that she did not want another referendum, “but if parliament absolutely failed to reach a consensus, I can see there would be a plausible argument for it”. She added that she did not believe the public wanted another vote. [...]

Ms Rudd said it would be “very difficult to get [the deal] through” the House of Commons. A leading figure in the 2016 Remain campaign, she said in September, when she was not a cabinet minister, that a second referendum would be “absolutely” preferable to a no-deal Brexit. [...]

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