The former PM insisted a new vote would give the public 'a proper choice' between May’s deal and staying in the EU
THERESA May will be forced to hold a second EU referendum when Parliament blocks her Brexit deal, Tony Blair has predicted.
The former Labour PM has claimed there will be “an impasse” in the Remain-leaning Commons and Lords.
But Britain’s most pro-EU former leader also vowed to respect the result of any second nationwide poll even if it is a vote for Brexit again.
Mr Blair told BBC Radio 4’s World At One: “I think there is a real possibility of an impasse in Parliament.
“If there isn’t really a majority for any one form of Brexit, then I do think the case is ever more stronger for going back to their people to allow them a final say on the deal.”
The former Labour leader insisted the fresh vote would be “a proper choice” between Mrs May’s deal and staying in the EU.
Pledging to accept the new decision, he added: “If people choose to continue with Brexit because that’s what they want, then people like me would have to accept that’s it.
“Then the olive branch that Boris Johnson extended last week would be accepted and we’d have to move on.”
Pro-Leave Labour MP Kate Hoey hit back at the call, saying that another vote just two years after the first would be “ridiculous”.
She argued: “This is nonsense, I don’t see another chance of another referendum on this issue”.
Mr Blair also blasted as “sickening” the suggestion by outspoken Brexiteers that the Good Friday Agreement should be scrapped.
The former PM, who brokered the historic peace deal in 1998, accused them of trying to “sacrifice” it on the “altar of Brexit” and argue peace in the country is not “worth having anyway”.
Prominent Tories Owen Paterson and Daniel Hannan were joined by Labour former minister Kate Hoey last week in arguing the Good Friday Agreement may have run its course.
