A referendum that is giving democracy a bad name

No need for a second vote

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Those who voted Remain in the recent EU referendum are being told that they need to "get over it". The Remain camp lost and by asking for a second referendum they are being sore losers, writes Rohini Rathour, formerly a fund manager and analyst at Sarasin & Partners.

The reason why we need to reconsider accepting the result as the "verdict of the people" is because it was not the choice of the vast majority of those who are affected by this decision: the young who cannot vote, those EU citizens who have lived in the UK paying taxes and contributed to making our country the best performing in the OECD in recent years, the British expats who live in Europe, the 13m who did not vote and of course, the 16m who voted to Remain. Mervyn King: No need to panic about Brexit It is true that the sky did not fall and the world has not ended on the back of the...

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