Time to march. Because now it’s the Brexiters who are afraid | Polly Toynbee

As the tide turns in favour of remain, the claim that the people’s will is being denied will need another vote to resolve it

Is the date in your diary? The march for a people’s vote on 23 June marks the second anniversary of the Brexit referendum, that day of national meltdown and the harshest social rift of our lifetime. This week the Commons corridors are filled with intensive lobbying of MPs before next week’s pivotal Brexit votes. As amendments to the EU withdrawal bill are made in the Lords, whips demand maximum party tribalism. Meanwhile, rebels call on consciences to save the nation in its hour of peril. The vote on giving parliament a “meaningful say” on the deal was only won by four votes in December, so the decisions on staying in a customs union, a frictionless Irish border and joining the European Economic Area (EEA) hang by a whisker. But there’s a new spring in the step of the soft Brexiters and no-Brexiters. The crunch moment has come. A wind of change is blowing through parliament.

The cabinet’s shocking failure over two wasted years to resolve anything means that the baton passes to MPs. As rival cabinet groups debate impossible options that are not seen as viable by EU negotiators, nothing has changed, and still the clock ticks down to the 28 June summit in Brussels.

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