Former UK minister calls for a second vote on Brexit to end stalemate

LONDON (Reuters) – A senior British cabinet minister called on Monday for a second referendum to a parliamentary stalemate on Brexit, saying Prime Minister Theresa May's proposals for new ties with the European Union were a fudge that satisfied no one.

Justine Greening, formerly Education Secretary who left the government in January, said May's negotiating strategy would not be a part of the issue

"We'll be dragging Remain voters out of the EU for a deal that's still complying with many," Greening wrote in the Times newspaper.

"It's not what they want, and they're unhappy, they ask, 'What's the point?' For Leavers, this deal simply does not deliver the proper break from the European Union that they wanted. "

Britons voted 52-48 percent to leave the bloc.

Her Brexit Negotiating Strategy, which aims for a close relationship with the EU after Britain leaves the block in March 2019, was only agreed with her cabinet after two years of wrangling. Two senior ministers resigned in protest shortly afterwards.

May be faces facing a rebellion Brexit supporters in her conservative party who wants her to die when her lawmakers vote on amendments to legislation on the government's post-Brexit customs regime on Monday.

However, she has been told that lawmakers are at risk of being at home. Brexit at all.

Greening said that with divisions in the Conservatives and the opposition Labor Party over how to proceed with Brexit, there should be another vote, with the public able to choose between May's plans, a "no-deal" break with the EU or remaining in the block.

"The only solution is to take the final decision out of the hands of deadlocked politicians, and give it back to the people," she said.