Rees-mogg: Britain could rejoin the EU after Brexit

BRITAIN could rejoin the EU in the future, Jacob Rees-mogg admitted yesterday, as an anti-brexit billionaire said a campaign for a second EU referendum will begin “in the next few days”.

Resisting calls for the final Brexit deal to be put to a “people’s vote”, the leading Tory Eurosceptic said any decision to reverse Brexit “would be a matter for the electorate”. However, he added, first the result of the 2016 referendum “must be respected and it must be implemented”.

George Soros, the Us-hungarian tycoon, said Best for Britain, a campaign fighting to keep the UK in the European Union and in which he has invested hundreds of thousands of pounds, publishes its “manifesto” shortly. Mr Rees-mogg left the door open to rejoining the bloc during a phone-in on LBC Radio.

The MP for North East Somerset was asked if he would “respect the will of the people” if the nation rejected the Government’s Brexit deal.

He said: “There was a vote … we had the biggest democratic exercise in our nation’s history and 17.4 million people voted to leave and of course that should be implemented. If in 30 years’ time the UK wants to rejoin that would be a matter for the electorate then but this result must be respected and it must be implemented, otherwise we would find our democracy held in as much contempt as that in Greece and Italy by the European Union.”

Best for Britain is attempting to persuade MPS to back a referendum on the final Brexit deal.