People’s Vote

12.09.2019 Brexit

Election then referendum? Or referendum then election? Brexit next steps

Oliver Letwin. Tom Watson. And Tony Blair. All of them have in the past fortnight suggested the UK should first hold a 2nd EU referendum, and only thereafter hold a General Election. This is the opposite of the prevailing thinking in Westminster

17.07.2019 Brexit

The speech Jeremy Corbyn should give on 22 July about Johnson and Brexit

Fictitious scenario. The date is Monday 22 July, the day before Boris Johnson is expected to be approved leader of the Conservative Party, and two days before he is expected to go to the Palace to see the Queen. Jeremy

24.05.2019 Brexit

What May’s resignation means for the Brexit process

So May has gone. Or at least said when she will go. Her statement today that she will stand aside on 7th June, together with the announcement by Brandon Lewis and others about the timetable for the leadership election that

20.01.2019 Brexit

Labour should back a People’s Vote, but need not explicitly back Remain

Back in December I wrote that trying to break UK party politics was not the way out of Britain’s Brexit conundrum. The events of this past 7 days underline this even more. Back in December, 117 Tory MPs voted to

31.12.2018 Brexit

Which way does May go? What she decides to do when her deal fails will have a significant impact on Brexit

Cowed and weakened after the events of the past few months, Theresa May will nevertheless stagger into the New Year as Prime Minister of the UK. And what she does between now and 17th (or possibly 21st) January will shape

30.11.2018 Brexit

How to make sure the People’s Vote ends up with the UK staying in the EU

In a fortnight the House of Commons will almost certainly reject Theresa May’s Brexit deal when the so-called “Meaningful Vote” happens. After that the path ahead is unclear, but one of the ways forward would be for a second Brexit

26.11.2018 Brexit

What should the “People’s Vote” Brexit referendum question be?

So we have a Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration. A Brexit “Deal”. And at the time of writing it looks pretty unlikely that such a deal will manage to get through the “Meaningful Vote” in the House of Commons (more

20.10.2018 Brexit

Anglophobia from the other side of the channel is not going to help the UK solve its Brexit woes

Seeing this tweet heartened me a lot this morning: https://x.com/TerryReintke/status/1053538998302490624 That’s the spirit! And Terry (on the left) is a German Green MEP, and Sibylle (on the right) is one of the speakers of the German Greens’ EU Policy Committee