Brexiteers launch Commons bid to kill off 'divisive' second EU referendum

More than 100 MPs have backed an amendment to today's motion on delaying Brexit seeking to stop a so-called 'people's vote' from ever taking place. Tabled by Tory eurosceptic Lee Rowley and backed by DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds and Labour MPs Gareth Snell and Caroline Flint, it asks the Commons to endorse the view that 'the result of the 2016 EU referendum should be respected and that a second EU referendum would be divisive and expensive, and therefore should not take place'.