There’s an upside to our Brexit humiliation – a second referendum is more likely | Alastair Campbell

Europe has seen to it that May’s deal or no deal are fading fast as possible options for Brexit. A people’s vote is the best bet

It was a day of humiliation for the UK, but also a day of hope. Humiliating to see our politics made a global laughing stock, and our prime minister reduced to making a direct plea to her fellow EU leaders, then to be asked to leave the room as they, not she, decided the way forward for her and our country. It is humiliating to be anywhere overseas right now (I was following events from Paris) and have foreigners talk to you about Britain in the tone of voice normally associated with consolation over a death in the family.

Donald Tusk has proposed a 'flexible extension' to Article 50. Under the plan the UK’s nominal last day in the EU would likely be 10 April 2020, but Britain would be expected to leave well before then, as soon as a withdrawal agree had been ratified by the UK parliament.

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