Following a disastrous few weeks for Theresa May and her government, a survey has found that the majority of Britons support a second Brexit referendum.

A YouGov poll commissioned by The Times found the number of people in favour of another vote has exceeded the number who do not for the first time.



The news follows the launch of the Independent's Final Say campaign for a vote on the Brexit deal, which gained more than 250,000 signatures in just over 24 hours.

Gary Lineker also backed a fresh vote this week, saying: "Whether you voted Leave or Remain, did anyone really vote for the mess we seem to be in, let alone the prospect of no deal with all the terrible consequences attached to that?"

The People's Vote campaign, backed by Labour MPs Chuka Umunna and David Lammy, now has over 230,000 signatures on a petition due to be delivered to Number 10.

On the YouGov poll, The Times reports that: "Voters were asked whether there should be a second referendum on the final terms of any Brexit deal. In the poll of 1,653 UK adults conducted on Wednesday and Thursday this week 42 per cent said there should be a fresh referendum while 40 per cent said there should not. The rest did not know."

"The views on a second referendum still split along Leave and Remain lines: just 19 per cent of people who voted to leave the EU in 2016 said there should be a new vote, while 66 per cent of those who voted to remain wanted one."

They attribute the rise to Theresa May's controversial Chequers plan which has angered remain voters keen to remain in the customs union and left hardline Brexiters feeling we will be leaving the EU "only in name".

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Before her proposal, only 37 per cent supported another referendum and in the poll last week 40 per cent were in favour.

The results follow another poll commissioned and published by The Sunday Times earlier this week, which found that 1 in 3 voters would be prepared to back a new anti-Brexit party.

Though before we get carried away, the public also apparently think Boris Johnson would do the best job of negotiating Brexit...

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