As almost three million people sign a petition for
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Posted On: 06/25/2016 9:54:22 PM
As almost three million people sign a petition for a second EU referendum we ask - could it actually happen?
Nigel Farage reacts at the Leave.EU referendum party to UK voting for Brexit
Nigel Farage reacts at the Leave.EU referendum party to UK voting for Brexit CREDIT: GEOFF CADDICK
Camilla Turner Michael Wilkinson
25 JUNE 2016 • 3:57PM
A petition calling for a second EU referendum has reached almost 3 million signatures, attracting the biggest surge of support Parliament’s website has ever seen.
The author of the petition, William Oliver Healey, says the Government should re-stage the referendum because the winning vote for Leave was less than 60 per cent and was based on a turnout of less than 75 per cent.
But could this actually happen?
Professor Vernon Bogdanor, one of Britain’s foremost constitutional experts said a second referendum is “highly unlikely”.
He told The Telegraph: “I don’t think the EU will wish to bargain any further, they will take this vote as final.”
Prof Bogdanor, an expert in constitutional history at King’s College London who was David Cameron’s tutor at Oxford, warned that Governments will be “very careful” about calling for referendums in the future.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/25/co...on-brexit/
Nigel Farage reacts at the Leave.EU referendum party to UK voting for Brexit
Nigel Farage reacts at the Leave.EU referendum party to UK voting for Brexit CREDIT: GEOFF CADDICK
Camilla Turner Michael Wilkinson
25 JUNE 2016 • 3:57PM
A petition calling for a second EU referendum has reached almost 3 million signatures, attracting the biggest surge of support Parliament’s website has ever seen.
The author of the petition, William Oliver Healey, says the Government should re-stage the referendum because the winning vote for Leave was less than 60 per cent and was based on a turnout of less than 75 per cent.
But could this actually happen?
Professor Vernon Bogdanor, one of Britain’s foremost constitutional experts said a second referendum is “highly unlikely”.
He told The Telegraph: “I don’t think the EU will wish to bargain any further, they will take this vote as final.”
Prof Bogdanor, an expert in constitutional history at King’s College London who was David Cameron’s tutor at Oxford, warned that Governments will be “very careful” about calling for referendums in the future.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/25/co...on-brexit/
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