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The powerful outburst took place on the BBC’s Newsnight show. Lord Kerr, formerly the UK’s representative to the European Union, was representing the ‘People’s Vote’ campaign, which demands a second referendum on the final Brexit deal. Many of its supporters want staying in the EU to be an option during this vote, essentially turning it into a second membership referendum. Lord Kerr claimed: “Public opinion is swinging very fast, there’s a huge groundswell towards a People’s Vote.”

However he was firmly rebuked by Gareth Snell, the Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, who believes the 2016 decision should be implemented. Mr Snell replied to Lord Kerr: “I would encourage him to come to Stoke-on-Trent and other areas which voted overwhelmingly”. He claimed: “The doors I’ve knocked on over the summer would not suggest there has been any measurable shift away from supporting leaving the European Union.” If a second referendum is held he argued: “All we risk doing is crystallising divisions in our communities and causing more problems that we are not solving domestically.”

I would encourage him to come to Stoke-on-Trent

All we risk doing is crystallising divisions in our communities"

On June 23 2016 Stoke-on-Trent voted to leave the EU by 69.4 percent to 30.6 percent. Mr Snell also used his Newsnight appearance to hit out at the ‘People’s Vote’ campaign. He argued: “Every time somebody describes a ‘People’s Vote’ they describe a completely different scenario and a different thing they want to put to the public in a vote.

“We have determined to leave the European Union on 29 March"

“We have determined to leave the European Union on 29 March. “That is in law no.” The ‘People’s Vote’ campaign will later today publish “The Roadmap to a People’s Vote”, which sets out how a second referendum could take place.

Prime Minister Theresa May has ruled out holding a second referendum