Can Britain Stop Brexit?

Video of my recent talk, 'Can Britain Stop Brexit?'

Why referendums and Parliament are incompatible

For the first time ever in a UK referendum, the electorate on 23 June 2016 rejected the status quo, the advice of the government and the consensus of Parliament.

The Brexit vote divided the country and pitched ‘direct democracy’ against ‘Parliamentary democracy’, with potentially disastrous consequences.

Can British 'feelings' about Europe be changed?

The Daily Mirror is one of the few British newspapers to support Britain’s continued membership of the EU, but this weekend it failed to persuade its readers to think the same way.

In an online poll Mirror readers voted 2-to-1 against Britain’s continued membership of the EU. 

This is in contrast to the country’s first referendum, when the British electorate voted 2-to-1 in favour of Britain remaining a member of what was then called the European Economic Community.