Sadiq Khan: second Brexit vote possible if parliament rejects deal.

Sadiq Khan said businesses were not bluffing
when they talked about leaving the UK. Photograph:
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London mayor says fresh referendum is an option as he warns that threats by firms to leave UK over Brexit uncertainty are real.

Sadiq Khan has suggested a second referendum could be on the cards if parliament rejected the Brexit deal eventually struck between the government and the 27 remaining EU member states.

“Of course that’s one of the options because you can’t have a situation where our parliament is supposed to be sovereign, our parliament rejects the deal made by our government and everyone is in paralysis,” the London mayor told Sky News.

Earlier, he called for businesses to be given certainty on what would happen when the UK leaves the bloc in March 2019. His comments came after the Goldman Sachs chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, hinted that the finance firm could move some of its operations from London to Frankfurt.

By Kevin Rawlinson.

Full story at The Guardian.