• A couple of personal thoughts:

    1). There is no way that the Commons could legitimately frustrate leaving if leave wins. It would provoke a constitutional crisis and civil unrest.
    2). The lack of clarity on what happens if leave wins will further kill business investment and consumer confidence.

    Presumably Sir Jeremy Heywood has a protocol of what happens set out in the event of a leave vote and will retain order, as one would expect of a civil servant. I suspect it's equally possible he has a cyanide pill ready.

  • On your first point, surely that depends on the turnout and the margin of victory? If only 45% of people vote and the vote goes 51/49 to leave, does that give Johnson et al carte blanche?

  • Interesting thought. I don't know the answer. I suspect the turnout will be higher than the last general election, so will trump the Commons in terms of legitimacy.

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