Lib Dems launch push to cancel Brexit WITHOUT another referendum

BRITAIN should cancel Brexit even without holding a second referendum if we’re heading for a No Deal scenario, the Lib Dems said today.

The party voted to adopt a new policy which would see the Government tell the EU we no longer want to leave in March next year.

Vince Cable’s party wants to stop Brexit – even without a referendumPA:Press Association

The controversial plan emerged as anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller told Lib Dem activists that quitting the EU is like WW2.

The party’s longstanding policy is to fight for a second referendum on Brexit which could overturn the result of the 2016 vote.

But at the Lib Dem conference in Brighton, party members voted to adopt a more radical policy which might see Brexit reversed on the say-so of Parliament – without the public getting a say.

The new policy, backed by leader Vince Cable, calls for the Government to extend the Article 50 process – the formal mechanism of quitting the EU – to give time for a new referendum.

Gina Miller has given a speech to Lib Dem conferencePA:Press Association

But it adds that if Brussels refuses to accept an extension, the UK should unilaterally revoke it anyway – keeping Britain in the EU indefinitely.

Today Ms Miller gave a speech at the Lib Dem conference pushing for a re-run of the 2016 referendum.

She said that leaving the EU without a trade deal would be like jumping off a cliff and harked back to WW2 as she laid into senior Brexit-backing politicians.

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