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Nigel Farage has proposed a second referendum on leaving the EU to settle the issue for a generation, as he believes the result would be the same again.
The former Ukip leader suggested another poll would ultimately kill off the campaign for Brexit to be reversed, which is championed by remainers such as Tony Blair, Andrew Adonis and Nick Clegg.
Speaking on Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff, he said: “My mind is actually changing on all this. What is for certain is that the Cleggs, the Blairs, the Adonises will never, ever, ever give up. They will go on whinging and whining and moaning all the way through this process.
“So maybe, just maybe, I’m reaching the point of thinking that we should have a second referendum on EU membership … unless you want to have a multiple choice referendum, which would confuse people. I think that if we had a second referendum on EU membership we would kill it off for a generation.
“The percentage that would vote to leave next time would be very much bigger than it was last time round. And we may just finish the whole thing off. And Blair can disappear off into total obscurity.”
So far, demands for a second referendum have entirely been the preserve of those opposed to Brexit, who hold out hope that public opinion is turning away from leaving the EU as a result of its economic risks.
His proposal was met with approval by anti-Brexit campaigners. Mark Malloch Brown, a peer who chairs the Best for Britain campaign, said another referendum was “something that the country needs”.
“Every day we see the disaster of Brexit it as we see it’s impact on our economy, jobs, communities and our society,” he said. “With these comments Nigel Farage is disowning the chaos that trying to leave the EU has wrought on this country. Him and his Brexiteer allies have zero idea of what would come next.”
(THEGUARDIAN)
