It has been two years, six months and 12 days since that day on June 4, 2016, when the world awoke to the news that the people of the United Kingdom voted for a break away with the rest of the European Union. Divorces are complicated and messy at best, and if this is to be compared to one it can be considered as the mother of them all.
After delaying the initial parliament vote in December in favour of trying to extract further concessions from the European Union, the day of reckoning on January 14, delivered the inevitable blow to Theresa May’s Brexit deal. During last year’s snap election, the Labour party came back from its relative obscurity that grappled the party post the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown heydays. The prospect of the Labour party possibly endorsing a second referendum has galvanised support and mobilised many disenfranchised youths.
However the party’s leader Jeremy Corbyn, has come short of endorsing a second referendum, making the Labour party’s position unclear in this respect. It is of paramount importance that the British people are given a clear way forward in this regard. Both Conservative and Tory parties have a proportion of representatives in favour...
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