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摘要

A YEAR AGO the case for a second vote on eu membership looked like the definition of a lost cause. At the general election in 2017 both major parties promised to "deliver Brexit". The only party that wanted to hold another referendum, the Liberal Democrats, got 8% of the vote. Support for a so-called People's Vote on the terms of Britain's exit from the eu was confined to a motley group of die-hards, no-hopers and eccentrics who spent more time feuding over technicalities (should 16-year-olds be given a say this time round?) than they did making their case to the people.