Tony Blair: public must get final say on Brexit

Tony Blair has stepped up calls for a new referendum on EU membership, arguing that the growing “impasse” in parliament over Brexit means “the polity of Britain” should get the final say on the deal.

The former prime minister claimed Theresa May’s Cabinet is still in “cake and eat it mode” despite Thursday’s meeting at Chequers, and have yet to face the binary choice facing them over Brexit.

Mr Blair said the UK will have to follow EU rules if it wants a close trading relationship with the bloc, rather than “taking back control”, or choose to become a “dynamic, low tax, light regulation, offshore trading hub”.

He also attacked what he saidwasministers’“sickening” irresponsibility over the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit’s impact on Northern Ireland.