A growing majority of British people now want Theresa May to call a second Brexit referendum if she fails to secure a deal on Britain's exit from the EU. 57% of the British public would want another vote under those circumstances, according to a new BMG poll. Among younger voters the majority is even larger, with 73% of 18-34 year-olds now backing a second vote.

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Nigel Farage has said that he thinks there should be a second referendum on Brexit. The revelations came on UK Channel 5 TV show, 'The Wright Stuff'. "What is for certain that the Cleggs, the Blairs, the Adonis' will never give up ... I'm reaching the point of thinking that we should have a second referendum on EU membership."

People should not expect pay rises above inflation this year as the stagnation in wages is set to continue until the end of 2018, according to a leading thinktank. The pay squeeze is likely to get worse before it gets better, with no meaningful recovery in wage packets before the end of next year, the Resolution Foundation found. Real wage growth is expected to be zero over the course of 2018 as a whole, meaning the pressure on living standards is set to continue.

Theresa May has less than a week to salvage a Brexit deal that would open the way to trade talks before the end of the year, amid increasing signs of impatience within the EU over her handling of the process. EU negotiators expect the prime minister to return to Brussels very soon, but have said time is running out to strike a deal at a European summit next week.

Theresa May was plunged into a new crisis on Saturday night after the government’s social mobility adviser revealed he and his team were quitting, warning that the prime minister was failing in her pledge to build a “fairer Britain”. In a major blow to No 10, Alan Milburn, the former Labour cabinet minister who chairs the government’s social mobility commission, said that he and all three of his fellow commissioners were walking out – including a leading conservative, Gillian Shephard.

Tony Blair has confirmed that he is trying to reverse Brexit, arguing that voters deserve a second referendum because the “£350m per week for the NHS” promise has now been exposed as untrue. In an interview with the BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend on Sunday, the former prime minister said that what was happening to the “crumbling” NHS was a “national tragedy” and that it was now “very clear” that the Vote Leave promise about Brexit leading to higher NHS spending would not be honoured.

As politicians dither over repairs, the risk of fire, flood or a deluge of sewage only increases. But fixing the Palace of Westminster might change British politics for good – which is the last thing many of its residents want. By Charlotte Higgins

Paris takes European Banking Authority and European Medicines Agency goes to Amsterdam as EU’s chief negotiator mocks Theresa May’s ‘Brexit means Brexit’ stance. London is losing the European Medicines Agency to Amsterdam and the European Banking Authority to Paris, in one of the first concrete signs of Brexit as the UK prepares to leave the European Union. The two cities won the agencies after tie breaks that saw the winner selected by drawing lots from a large goldfish-style bowl.

A British town named its new salt-spreading vehicles "David Plowie" and "Gritsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney" after a naming contest.

UK airlines have warned passengers they may not be able to fly after Brexit and that flights could be cancelled without compensation. British airlines are drawing up contingency plans, amid Brexit talks, which could see passengers lose consumer rights held under EU law, including their right to compensation if flights are grounded.

JOHN SHERIDAN STOOD ANKLE DEEP in the lush grass of his farm tracing the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic with his finger across the skyline. “I’m being shoved back into a corner,” he said, following its path in a 270-degree arc. “There’s a young lad there,” he said, waving in the direction of his 22-year-old son, Chris. “He doesn’t remember what it was like when there was a border.”

Margaret Thatcher decided to award a knighthood to a suspected child abuser MP despite being aware of the allegations against him, an inquiry has heard. The honour for then Rochdale MP Cyril Smith allowed him to continue to exploit his victims because he used the title to maintain ties with children’s organisations, investigators said.

RUPERT Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers has admitted computer and e-mail hacking in an attempt to unmask Britain's top informant within the IRA, Byline can reveal.

British people have turned their backs on Brexit, according to a new poll released just as Theresa May prepares to give a make-or-break speech on her plans for EU withdrawal. The exclusive survey for The Independent by BMG Research shows a majority now believe the country should remain in the EU, after weeks in which deadlocked Brussels talks and cabinet splits exposed the sheer complexity of withdrawal.

Thousands of pro-Europe protesters are marching on Parliament in a mass demonstration against Brexit. Organisers predicted around 100,000 protesters would gather in central London's Parliament Square, where they were due to be addressed by Sir Bob Geldof and Liberal Democrat former cabinet minister Sir Ed Davey.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned the U.K. on Saturday that it would have to pay a settlement to leave the EU, denying that the obligation amounted to a “fine.” “This is about obligations that Great Britain has entered into and that naturally must remain on the books,” Merkel said in her weekly podcast published Saturday ahead of the latest round of talks next week, Bloomberg reported. “It’s not about the cost of divorce — that makes it sound like fines. We’re still at the very start of these negotiations.”

“Brexit has caused a lot of uncertainty, a lot of confusion,” Emanuel Adam, director of trade and policy at British American Business, says. Last year, the transatlantic network, which represents more than 2,000 companies, asked its members if they thought Britain should leave the EU - 95% said no. Fourteen months after the referendum, they are trying to adjust to an uncomfortable political reality.

Britain's exit from the European Union will be the country's biggest calamity since World War Two, the former chief of staff to Brexit minister David Davis said on Wednesday, calling for a new political movement to oppose the divorce.

Britain would have likely voted to remain in the European Union were its population educated to a slightly higher level, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Leicester say that had just 3 per cent more of the population gone to university, the UK would probably not be leaving the EU. The researchers looked at reasons why people voted Leave and found that whether someone had been to university or accessed other higher education was the “predominant factor” in how they voted.