Theresa May rules out new Brexit vote says 2016 referendum was ‘the people’s vote’
MPs will have "multiple" opportunities to give the public the final say over whether the UK leaves the EU, the People's Vote campaign group has said, BBC reported.
Theresa May has ruled out a referendum on the outcome of the Brexit negotiations under any circumstances.
But People's Vote said there were six plausible scenarios in which Parliament could legislate for another vote.
It said there should be a choice for voters between leaving with or without a deal or staying on current terms.
The prime minister says the UK made its choice to leave in 2016 and that her plan for future co-operation with the EU - based on the Chequers blueprint agreed in July - respects the referendum result.
She has said the choice facing Parliament is between leaving with or without a comprehensive agreement.
But People's Vote said there were no practical or legal barriers to giving the public the final say through a referendum and urged MPs not to hide behind "logistical arguments".
The British public voted to leave the EU by a margin of 51.89% to 48.11% in a referendum in June 2016.
The UK is scheduled to leave on 29 March 2019, under the terms of the two-year Article 50 process.
Negotiations on the terms of the UK's withdrawal, the so-called divorce settlement, as well as the shape of future relations between the two sides are now at a critical stage.
European leaders meeting in Salzburg on Wednesday are expected to agree to hold a special summit in November at which any deal sealed in the next six weeks could be approved.
Parliament will then be expected to vote on the terms of any agreement before the end of the year.
People's Vote said this Commons showdown, when it happened, could be a catalyst for securing a referendum.
The six ways it believes a referendum could be delivered are:
Using a Commons motion when MPs vote on a Brexit deal the government has
negotiated
If MPs reject the deal or there is no deal by 21 January 2019
If MPs approve the deal - by amending the necessary legislation to make it conditional on a referendum
Theresa May could decide to call a referendum herself if MPs reject the deal
She might also call one if there's no deal, in the hope of securing a mandate to take the UK out of the EU on that basis
In the "possible chaos" of a snap general election called by Mrs May or any possible successor
Lord Kerr, the former top civil servant who wrote the report, said MPs who wanted a referendum faced a "high bar" given the government's control of the Parliamentary timetable.
But he pointed out that Mrs May, who relies on the Democratic Unionist Party for her slim Commons majority, had already suffered two Brexit defeats and if Parliament did not act "it will not be due to procedural impediments or a lack of time but because MPs have not chosen to take these opportunities".
Culled from from BBC