Theresa May again refuses to say she would vote for Brexit in another referendum
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Theresa May has again refused to say whether she would vote for Brexit if there was another EU referendum.
The Prime Minister was criticised last October after she told LBC that she would not be drawn on "hypothetical" scenarios.
That was despite Cabinet colleagues Jeremy Hunt and Liz Truss - both of whom supported Remain in the referendum campaign - saying they would back Leave in any future poll.
Brandon Lewis, who was appointed Conservative Party chairman by Mrs May last week, has also said he would switch to Leave if the referendum was re-run.
But in an interview with France2, Mrs May would only say: "If a vote was to come up, I would do what I did last time round which was sit down and look carefully at the issues. But there isn’t going to be another vote, so this is not an issue."
Eloise Todd, boss of anti-Brexit campaign group Best for Britain, said: "Theresa May still can’t say whether she’d vote for Brexit now, yet she’s leading the negotiations for it. That is because, even though she was a lukewarm pro-European, she knows that leaving the European Union is a colossal act of economic self harm.
"That's why she cannot say she would vote for Brexit - she knows the true impact of the forces that her Brextremists have unleashed on Britain.
"The Conservative Party used to care about the national interest above everything else - yet this government has put dogma over the well-being of the country."
A Downing Street spokesman said: "What's important is that the Prime Minister is committed to securing a good Brexit deal and that's what we're focussed on."
DIANE ABBOTT
Meanwhile, Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott has hinted that Labour could end up supporting a second EU referendum.
In an interview with Prospect magazine, she would only say that it was "currently" her party's policy not to support another poll.
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