On the other hand, for inching us closer to Brexit happening at all, and with Labour’s blessing, he deserves blame. What if the process of elimination falters and May’s deal squeaks through after all, helped over the line by Labour votes? For the strategy to work, MPs must not only recoil from no deal, but then decide to flee to the safe harbour not of May’s Brexit deal but a public vote. They can’t wait for the starting gun of a referendum that may or may not ever sound. They need instead to make the anti-Brexit case to the public right now, as if the referendum campaign had already begun.

Source: The Guardian February 08, 2019 17:50 UTC