Remainers Need A New Election Before A Second Referendum

Referendums, as the British are increasingly aware, are different from general elections. In the latter a party makes a series of promises they then attempt to implement in office. This is their electoral mandate. If the electorate don’t like how these turn out, they kick them out. In contrast, however illusory, contradictory or empty the promises made by the winning side in 2016 may have proved in practice, there is no ready-made constitutional mechanism for a re-think a few years after a