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The winner of this year's Nobel Prize in economics once called for a second Brexit referendum

Richard Thaler is the winner of the Economic Nobel Prize this year. He once wanted the British government to hold a second referendum on leaving the EU, saying that the voters were not properly informed of what the consequences would be leaving. Thaler argued in his article — which was written more than six months before the UK triggered Article 50 in March this year — that the vote, which saw Leave beat Remain by 52-48, should not have been treated as a "mandate to hastily invoke Article 50". Later Thaler wrote "Making the rules so vague has had unintended consequences. First, it allowed proponents of Brexit to offer voters the apparently unrealistic hope that the UK could negotiate an associate status similar to that of Norway, but with some modifications of the rules on free movement of people," To read more visit  here Source http://www.businessinsider.com/richard-thaler-nobel-prize-brexit-second-referendum-2017-10

Brexit: More than 120 MPs accuse Government of keeping everyone 'in the dark'

120 MP's signed a letter accusing the government of keeping the public and parliament in the dark. The Brexit minister David Jones already confirmed that officials have carried out more than 50 unpublished studies on how EU divorce will impact on different sectors. This is not looking good for the British government and more pressure will be on them in the coming days for them to release and publish their findings. One member of parliament, MP David Lammy, who helped co-ordinate the letter, says “So we are calling on the Government to come clean and publish these studies so we can have a full and frank debate about the impact of Brexit with all the facts and analysis out in the open”. You can read the full story by Lizzy Buchan,  here . Source http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-theresa-may-eu-uk-government-accused-keeping-public-in-dark-a7993636.html