UK Green Party Home Affairs Spokesman Shahrar Ali expressed confidence that Parliament would support the extension of the Brexit deadline past March 29 and that a second referendum on the issue would become a probable option if the government fails to present viable divorce arrangements.
“On Thursday there will have to be an extension. Certainly we won’t be leaving the European Union on the 29th of March. And secondly we’ll be bound to remain in the European Union until or unless we have a successful negotiation. And I think at that point we may well be going to the people for a second referendum,” Ali said.
The spokesperson added that the current situation favored the idea of holding a second Brexit referendum and at the right moment in the future, the vote would seem more and more inevitable.
“We’re taking it in steps, but at the moment it’s all in favor, I would say, of a people’s vote. But when it happens when all the other options have been rolled out, it’s going to start looking increasingly inevitable,” Ali said.
At the same time, Ali stressed that the time for a second public vote had not come yet and rushing the referendum could only lead to bad results.