Vote again to break the Brexit deadlock

Calls are growing for a second EU referendum. Matthew Partridge reports.

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Opinion is starting to shift towards a second referendum
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Not only does the Brexit compromise hammered out at Chequers look like "the worst of both worlds", but whatever is agreed "there will inevitably be people disenfranchised by their MP's vote, despite Brexit shaping all our lives for decades to come", says former education secretary Justine Greening in The Times. The only solution "is to take the final Brexit decision out of the hands of deadlocked politicians, away from the backroom deals, and give it back to the people". This would involve a second referendum with the public "asked to choose between the three paths facing our country: the PM's final negotiated Brexit deal, staying in the EU, or a clean Brexit break and leaving with no deal".

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Dr Matthew Partridge
Shares editor, MoneyWeek

Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He has previously written for a wide range of publications, including the Guardian and the Economist, and also helped to run a newsletter on terrorism. He has spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and the consultancy Lombard Street Research.

Matthew is the author of Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, published by Harriman House, which has been translated into several languages. His second book, Investing Explained: The Accessible Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio, is published by Kogan Page.

As senior writer, he writes the shares and politics & economics pages, as well as weekly Blowing It and Great Frauds in History columns He also writes a fortnightly reviews page and trading tips, as well as regular cover stories and multi-page investment focus features.

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