Lib Dem Heidi Allen's EU pledge destroyed by passionate Brexiteer in furious blow to MP
HEIDI ALLEN was mocked by a Brexiteer audience member over her claims that a second referendum must include an option to Remain on Channel 5’s Brexit Debate show.
Brexit: Allen slammed by audience member over second vote
Lib Dem Ms Allen, who is the former leader of Change UK, came under fire during Channel 5’s Brexit Debate show. An audience member was enraged when Ms Allen said remain should be on a second referendum ballot.
The audience member said: “Why would remain be on a second referendum paper? It’s already been answered!”
Ms Allen replied: “Because the deal that appears to be in front of us now - and we do need to wait to see what Boris Johnson brings back - but it appears for the reasons Anne’s been getting cross and maybe some of you are in that side of the room as well, what you think you’re about to get as a deal isn’t what you want.
“It isn’t what you voted for, so the point is,” she was interrupted by the audience member who disagreed with what she said.
He shouted from the audience: “We certainly didn’t vote to remain!
“When I voted to leave I didn’t expect to have to vote again.
“How many times do you want me to vote before we actually get what we vote for?”
Jeremy Vine, the show’s host, interjected and attempted to explain what Ms Allen was trying to get across.
He said: “Isn’t the problem that, When people say, ‘when you voted out, it wasn’t clear you voted out with no deal?’”
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The audience member replied: “We were told we would leave or remain. Leave or remain.”
Anne Widdecombe, delighted at this, threw her hands upwards and said: “That’s what I mean.”
Ms Allen believes the UK is currently stuck in a deadlock that will only be lifted once a vote on EU membership is put back to the British people.
The Lib Dem MP was formerly of the Conservative Party, but left to help form and join Change UK.
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Ms Allen has been caught in Brexit controversy on several occasions with her outspoken pro-EU stance.
In August, a pro-Brexit war veteran was jailed after posting countless “clearly threatening” tweets and messages about Ms Allen.
Ian Couch, 59, was given a 24-week sentence and told that he had carried out “a profound attack on democracy” which had put Ms Allen “at significant risk”.
Some of the posts Mr Couch sent out included aerial photographs of Ms Allen’s home in Cambridgeshire, as well as telling her in an email that a lot of people had asked for the MPs address.
Ms Allen’s most recent Brexit backlash in the face of the public comes amid an approaching Brexit deal deadline.
October 19 is the last day on which Prime Minister Boris Johnson can strike a deal and get it passed by MPs in order to leave by October 31.
Mr Johnson’s plans to leave the EU by the end of the month with or without a deal were thwarted when MPs approved the Benn Act through the Commons.
The act, drawn up by Labour MP Hilary Benn, requires Mr Johnson to write to the EU and request a delay to Brexit in the case of a deal not being reached by October 19.
This law has made it near impossible for the Prime Minister to pursue his initial plan on leaving the EU with no deal after October 31, as the act is enshrined in law.
Despite this, Mr Johnson’s Government has consistently said the UK will leave the EU with or without a deal by October 31.
More recently, Andrea Leadsom, the Energy Secretary, claimed the Government would follow any letter written to the EU requesting a delay to Brexit with a second letter outlining its intentions to leave without a deal.