My Westminster colleague Rachel Sylvester, in a typically perspicacious column this week, spelt out the case for a new referendum on Brexit. Nicola Sturgeon says that she is keeping an open mind on this possibility. Indeed, the first minister seems to be warming to the idea. In October last year she said that the case for consulting the people on a Brexit deal was “hard to resist”. By the start of this month that position…

Source: The Times January 31, 2018 00:05 UTC