Former British prime minister Tony Blair has come under fire for calling on Britons to “mobilize” against Brexit.
“The issue is not whether we ignore the will of the people, but whether, as information becomes available, and facts take the place of claims, the will of the people shifts. Maybe it won’t, in which case people like me will have to accept it,” the former premier wrote in the New European daily on Friday.
“But surely we are entitled to try to persuade, to make the argument, and not to be whipped into line to support a decision we genuinely believe is a catastrophe for the country we love,” he added.
Although the British people chose to leave the European Union during a referendum in late June, Blair told BBC Radio in a separate interview that all options, including a second referendum to reverse the Leave vote, should be kept on the table.
Stewart Jackson, a Tory MP and parliamentary private secretary to the Brexit secretary,…