The campaign against Brexit continues today with Tony Blair’s speech in Brussels. I personally think that this campaign is unlikely to succeed, it is simply too much of a replay of the In campaign’s arguments from the 2016 referendum.
But if this attempt to reverse the referendum result is to have any hope of succeeding, Blair’s leg is the most important. For he is asking the EU to make the UK an improved offer, to show that it is trying to address the concerns that led to so many people voting to Leave.
Every time the European Union has asked a country to vote again on a treaty it has provided some concession to make it more palatable second time round. After the Danes rejected Maastricht, they were given four opt-outs designed to address the concerns about sovereignty that had driven the initial No vote.
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