Former education secretary Justine Greening has publicly called for a second referendum on whether the UK should leave the EU, dealing Theresa May’s Brexit plan yet another serious blow.
Writing in The Times, Greening says that the plan brokered at a recent meeting at Chequers is not a “workable compromise”, labelling the deal “a fudge that I can’t support”, and “the worst of both worlds”.
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