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mo4ch:>‘2nd EU referendum would take more than one year’ claims govt, as Farage hints at return | Mo4ch News

The UK government claims that a second EU referendum would take over a year to organize, according to official ministerial guidance leaked to the media, as Nigel Farage hints at returning via a different “vehicle.”The Telegraph’s chief political correspondent Christopher Hope, took to social media to tweet that he had been given the official guidance drawn up by civil servants at the Cabinet Office. According to the leaked document, it would take a minimum of 14 months to pass the necessary legislation through parliament to carry out a second referendum.Pro-EU campaigners and politicians such as Caroline Lucas from the Green Party, the SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon and the Liberal Democrats’ Vince Cable, have all urged UK PM Theresa May to keep the possibility of a second EU referendum on the table. May has been hostile to the idea up to now.Primary legislation (seven months)Electoral Commission question testing (12 weeks)Secondary legislation (six weeks)Designation of campaigns and the actua…