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Brexit debate: Chuka Umunna calls for fresh referendum as Jacob Rees Mogg warns against patronising UK voters - As it happened

Follow all the latest updates from The Independent's exclusive Brexit panel

Ashley Cowburn
Political Correspondent
Wednesday 11 July 2018 21:58 BST
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Welcome to the The Independent's politics liveblog, covering our exclusive panel discussion this evening on 100 days until the Brexit deal is done.

Political editor Joe Watts is speaking to leading voices from across the debate, including cabinet minister Andrea Leadsom, anti-Brexit campaigner Gina Miller, and prominent Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg.

We are hearing from former attorney general Dominic Grieve, who became an unlikely leader of rebel Tories, Pro-EU Labour MP Chuka Umunna, and Labour Leave boss John Mills.​

The event is being livestreamed here.

See below for live updates

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Asked whether Theresa May can deliver the referendum the people asked for, Rees-Mogg says: "Yes - but just not Chequers".

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Asked about the amendments he's putting forward next week, Rees-Mogg says there should be a "number" of Tories who will vote for him.

Leadsom says she "has just seen them" [the amendments] and will be looking closely at them in the coming days. 

You can read more on this story here from earlier today: 

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On the meaningful vote saga in the Commons earlier this year, Grieve says it was never his intention to give parliament a "bloody nose". 

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One of the audience member says by the time of the referendum the Brexit impact papers didn't exist. She says if there is a second referendum what should the question be. 

Umunna says the question should be for us to have the option to leave with the PM's deal or stay inside the European Union. He says the original choice was too binary. He says he doesn't believe there is a form of Brexit that can be reached in which parliament will come to a consensus. 

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Gina Miller says she would like a clear vote on the real options - and the people deciding if they want to validate it. Whatever happens with Brexit, we still have to bring this country together, Miller adds. "We really have to find a way of getting past where are and stop blaming each other."

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