As Brexit negotiations gear up again this week, the campaign for a second referendum is gathering momentum. But who are the people trying to stop Brexit? We hear from James McGrory, the director of the People’s Vote campaign. Plus: a week on from the synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh, Hadley Freeman reflects on the drivers of antisemitism in the United States
The People’s Vote campaign is growing in strength: a recent march brought an estimated 700,000 people on to the streets of London to demand a new referendum on Brexit. But it didn’t just happen. Out of the ashes of the defeated remain campaign in 2016 emerged a new political force: a set of activists and politicians with a vast database of supporters and a willingness to work across traditional party lines.
The driving force behind it all is the campaign’s director, James McGrory, a former special adviser to Nick Clegg. He’s been co-ordinating grassroots supporters, pro-remain MPs and fact-finding missions to Brussels. He tells Anushka Asthana that if the government cannot get a Brexit deal through parliament, a second referendum is the only way to settle the UK’s future relationship with the EU.
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