Second Brexit vote ‘plausible’ - Rudd sows the seed of sanity

One of the skills a politician needs to try to resolve a deadlock is the capacity to sow a seed that might blossom into something altogether unimaginable — at least for those sustaining the deadlock by red-line refusals to compromise.

The suggestion from Amber Rudd, a member of Theresa May’s dangerously dysfunctional cabinet, that there is a “plausible argument” for the British public to be asked to vote again on Brexit if MPs remain at loggerheads suggests that a sow-the-seed moment has been reached.