This week I and four other colleagues from the north east, all representing constituencies that voted to leave the EU in 2016 stated our support for a people’s vote on the final Brexit deal. In doing so, we have unleashed a fierce debate in a part of the country where it has been too often assumed that minds have been made up about Brexit.
The last thing I want to see happen is another EU referendum. What I do want to see is a people’s vote on the final Brexit deal negotiated between the British government and the EU. That deal will set the country’s economic prospects for decades to come.
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