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The UK must "pause and think" before doing anything "irrevocably stupid" on the Brexit, said Jo Johnson one day after resigning from his ministerial post.
Today, on BBC Radio 4, he again called for a new referendum, saying the proposed offer was "spectacularly short" compared to the promised promise.
The former Minister of Transport said it would be a "democratic parody" not to have another vote.
He denied that his actions amounted to a coup d'etat against the prime minister.
Johnson, who voted to stay in the EU in the 2016 referendum, resigned as the future agreement between Theresa May and Brussels was presented to ministers.
He warned that the UK had to choose between "vassal" in its proposals and "chaos" it left the EU without agreement.
The deputy from Orpington, Kent, said that he had "made the happy decision" to end his own ministerial career and, when asked to do so he thought that other ministers would resign, he added that they thought it was a good thing for them to take a stand then "good on them".
Ministers were invited this week to read the draft withdrawal agreement from the UK with the EU. Theresa May said that the withdrawal agreement was 95% – but there is still no agreement on how not to guarantee a hard border in Northern Ireland.
In a statement of resignation Friday, Johnson said Britain was "on the verge of the biggest crisis" since World War II, saying the proposed offer did "look nothing like what had been promised ".
Mr. Johnson said today, "I feel that it is so different from what has been presented that it would be a joke if we did not go back to the citizens and ask them not to go out of their way. they really wanted to leave the EU on this extremely hopeless basis. "
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His call for another vote was attacked by Conservative MP and Brexiteer leader Jacob Rees-Mogg and former First Secretary Damian Green.
Mr Green told Today that another referendum "would create divisions, but would not be decisive", and all the evidence showed that the country was "still, more or less, split in two".
Mr. Rees-Mogg stated that Mr. Johnson "warmed up the" Fear Project "to keep us from leaving."
Johnson is the sixth minister in Theresa May's government to resign specifically following the Brexit, after David Davis, Boris Johnson, Philip Lee, Steve Baker and Guto Bebb.
Johnson's brother, Boris, who stepped down as Foreign Secretary in July, was a prominent Brexiteer specialist.
Serious impact?
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Johnson was elected to Orpington in 2010 and was appointed Minister of Transport in January.
Analysis by BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg
Jo Johnson has long struggled against the reality of Brexit.
A respected and valued member of the government, he decided that what was promised to the people during the referendum campaign is now so different from what is on the table that he has instead left the government.
He is neither the first nor the best-known minister to resign in the wake of Brexit. But leaving now, when Theresa May is trying to reach a final deal, could have a serious impact.
Read Laura's full blog
