Best for Britain has lined up a group of MPs who will put down an amendment in parliament this autumn calling for a second referendum on the country’s membership of the EU once Theresa May has obtained a final exit deal from her negotiations with the 27-country bloc.
The pro-remain campaign group, which has raised £2.3m and is partly backed by George Soros, unveiled a timetable at the heart of the launch of its manifesto, designed to avoid the risk that “the entire establishment sleepwalks the country over the Brexit finish line in March 2019”.