Second Brexit referendum call grows louder but risks abound
Without rules, a referendum is little more than an invitation to a collective roar of anger and is open to abuse by politicians, says .
Now that British prime minister Theresa May, facing certain defeat, has postponed the parliament’s vote on the deal she concluded with the European Union last month on the United Kingdom’s departure from the bloc, the case for a “people’s vote” — a second Brexit referendum — is gaining ground. But is a referendum really the right mechanism for settling political issues that the people’s elected representatives cannot or will not?
