Brexit backer Farage moots second EU referendum

Chief of the UK Independence Celebration (UKIP), Nigel Farage, makes a speech in London on July four, 2016, asserting that he was stepping down as chief of the UK Independence Celebration (UKIP). The 52-year-old acknowledged that whoever succeeded David Cameron as prime minister must be a long-time Brexit campaigner and vowed to scrutinise negotiations over Britain's departure from the EU. / AFP PHOTO / Ben STANSALL

Elementary Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage advised Thursday that Britain hold a second referendum on EU membership to silence those that don't need to go away the bloc.

"Possibly, merely in all probability, we should always always have a second referendum on EU membership. It may kill off the problem for a know-how as shortly as and for all," he acknowledged on Twitter.

Earlier, the sooner UK Independence Celebration (UKIP) chief instructed The Wright Stuff, a panel tv present on Channel 5: "My concepts is definitely altering on this."

He acknowledged that pro-Europeans akin to former prime minister Tony Blair "is not going to ever ever ever hand over".

"They are going to go on whinging and whining and moaning all by this course of.

"So in all probability, merely in all probability, I am reaching the purpose of pondering that we should always always have a second referendum on EU membership," acknowledged Farage, who was thought of one in every of many elementary driving forces behind remaining yr's referendum.

"The proportion which is able to vote to go away subsequent time could also be very heaps bigger than it was remaining time spherical.

"And we'd end all of the issue off and Blair can merely disappear off into full obscurity."

Britain voted in June 2016 to go away the European Union, by 52 p.c to 48 p.c.

The Liberal Democrats and one different pro-EU opposition politicians have usually referred to as for a second referendum, arguing that Britons didn't know the entire implications of leaving the EU as quickly as they voted.

Prime Minister Theresa Might has dominated out a second vote.