What would UK voters be asked in a referendum on the Brexit deal?
Analysis: As the case grows for giving the public the Final Say on Brexit, Sean O’Grady looks at the question of The Question
While a Final Say referendum is probably now inevitable, it begs some questions of its own. As the various other immediate options – the May deal, no deal, a general election – proceed to be successively rejected by the House of Commons, the referendum will emerge as the last resort. So the question of The Question will soon assume a central importance in British politics. It is itself fraught with presuppositions and prejudices of its own.
One option would be to reuse the question put in the 2016 referendum, with a simple “X” in a box for the voter’s preference:
Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?
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