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British public will get 'second chance' on Brexit, new Remain campaign chief says

'I think people are changing their minds,' says former diplomat Lord Malloch-Brown

Tuesday 09 January 2018 15:5

A senior diplomat charged with spearheading pro-Remain efforts has said that the public will get a “second chance” to look at Brexit.

Lord Malloch-Brown, a former UN deputy secretary general, said he was “unashamed” to declare that he wanted to reverse the decision to leave European Union and insisted that voters were already beginning to change their minds on the result.

In one of the first interviews since he began efforts to coordinate opposition to Brexit, the Labour former Foreign Office minister said people has started to realise they had been “seriously mis-sold” on the reality of the divorce proceedings.

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It comes after a series of interventions on Brexit from senior politicians, including Tory peer Lord Heseltine – who said Brexit would be more damaging than a Jeremy Corbyn government – and Tony Blair, who urged Labour to abandon its confusing” and “mistaken” stance on Brexit or risk losing voters.

Lord Malloch-Brown is leading efforts to coordinate opposition to Brexit from a number of different groups, including campaigners Open Britain and the grassroots group Best for Britain, with the hope of changing public opinion before the final Brexit deal is decided.

Pro-EU campaigners hopes to capitalise on efforts by Conservative rebels to secure a “meaningful vote” for MPs on the terms of the Brexit deal, which came when the Government was defeated on an amendment to the EU (Withdrawal) Bill before Christmas.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/remain-campaign-brexit-second-referendum-lord-malloch-brown-eu-rejoin-european-union-a8149616.html

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MARK MALLOCH-BROWN (UK)

CO-CHAIR OF THE UN FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS; SENIOR ADVISOR, EURASIA GROUP

Rt Hon Lord Mark Malloch-Brown KCMG is a former number two in the United Nations as well as having served in the British Cabinet and Foreign Office. He is active both in business and in the non-profit world, and also remains deeply involved in international affairs.

He is the Co-Chair of the UN Foundation Board of Directors and a Senior Advisor at Eurasia, engaging with its clients on questions of political risk. He serves on a number of commercial boards for business with global markets. He also chairs Best For Britain, an advocacy group engaged in the debate about Britain’s relations with the EU.

He served as Deputy Secretary‐General and Chief of Staff of the UN under Kofi Annan. For six years before that he was Administrator of the UNDP, leading the UN’s development efforts around the world. He was later Minister of State in the Foreign Office, covering Africa and Asia, and was a member of Gordon Brown’s cabinet. Other positions have included vice-chairman of George Soros’s Investment Funds, as well as his Open Society Institute, a Vice‐President at the World Bank and the lead international partner in a political consulting firm. He also has served as Vice-Chairman of the World Economic Forum. He began his career as a journalist at The Economist.

He chairs or is on the Board of a number of non-profit boards including the International Crisis Group and the Open Society Foundation.

Lord Malloch-Brown is also a Distinguished Practitioner of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University and an adjunct fellow at the Queen Elizabeth Programme at Chatham House. He was formerly a visiting distinguished fellow at the Yale Centre for the Study of Globalisation. He has a number of honorary degrees. He was knighted in 2007 for his contribution to international affairs.

He is the author of “The Unfinished Global Revolution” that casts an autobiographical lens on the state of the world. In 2005 Time Magazine put him on its list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He continues to write, broadcast and lecture about international issues.

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