Former Conservative minister Justine Greening calls for second referendum on Brexit deal | City A.M.

Former Conservative education secretary Justine Greening has called for a second referendum on the UK’s Brexit deal.

In an opinion piece in the Times today, Greening described Prime Minister Theresa May’s Chequers Brexit dea as “the worst of both worlds” and argued a second Brexit referendum would break parliamentary “stalemate” on the issue.

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“The only solution is to take the final Brexit decision out of the hands of deadlocked politicians, away from the backroom deals, and give it back to the people,” she wrote.

Greening argued for a vote that would give the public three choices on the country’s future: May’s final negotiated Brexit deal, staying in the EU, or a no-deal Brexit.

She argued for the referendum to be on a first and second choice preference vote model, which she said would allow “a consensus finally to be found”.

Greening said a referendum using this approach would deliver a clear majority on what sort of Brexit the public want and would give a “unique chance to settle the European question for a generation”.

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Greening has served as transport secretary and most recently education secretary before resigning in January 2018 during a cabinet reshuffle.

She supported remain in the UK’s 2016 Brexit referendum.