Hundreds of thousands of protesters stormed London, demanding that the Brexit question be put back to the people with a fresh vote
, but remains unclear whether Britain will truly leave then or at a later deadline of May 22 or if it will leave at all.
Critics argue that a second referendum would be deeply damaging to democracy and a betrayal of those who chose to leave. For most of the past year, polls have shown a slight majority would now opt to remain in the bloc. Pollsters say that the small but persistent swing is partly down to changing demographics. Younger people are overwhelmingly pro-EU, and those teens who couldn't vote in 2016 are now of voting age. The majority of voters 65 and older voted to leave the bloc, and some of them have since died.
"It's unlikely at the moment, simply because there just doesn't seem to be support from Parliament," said Anand Menon, a professor of European politics at King's College London. But, he added, that in these febrile times, "anything is a possibility". Of course, Britain could just cancel the whole Brexit mess. A petition to revoke Article 50 - in effect the EU exit papers - is now one of the most popular petitions on the British Parliament's website.
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