Former prime minister Gordon Brown told the BBC Nov. 9 that Britain is heading towards a “crisis point” because Leavers will realize that they won’t be getting what they were promised as it becomes clearer what kinds of effects Brexit will have on day-to-day life. He thinks that could trigger a massive change in public opinion could lead to an overall rethink, “may be scope for a reassessment.” [...]
The UK government has never formally acknowledged if there is, indeed, an ability to revoke Article 50. A London-based lawyer, Jolyon Maugham, actually filed a lawsuit in an Irish court hoping to find the answer but as Quartz reported, he withdrew the suit after opposition from the Irish government and the unlikelihood that it would make it to the European Court of Justice—the only legal body that can answer the question definitively. [...]
“Would the Tory government do anything any? Because in the end, it’s not really about public opinion, it’s about the opinion of the Conservative party. When we talk about the Conservative party, we are talking about the parliamentary side, which are just finding their voices, and then the party across the country [members], in which the party is shrinking, aging, and getting increasingly Brexit-y. However many members of the government think about this, their minds will go to the reactions of their party members across all constituencies.”
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