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How to get out of a gigantic mess - of Brexit, citizens assemblies, and popular sovereignty

The UK is in a mess thanks to an ill-defined ‘Leave’ option in the Brexit vote. More genuine popular sovereignty could have prevented the mess – and could yet get us out of it.

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Image: Anti-Brexit demonstration, July 2016. Flickr/Andy Worthington

What do ‘we the people’ think about Brexit? A simple enough question that the referendum in 2016 answered definitively?