'Lord Mandelson’s claim Brexit could be cancelled because voters were not told the truth about leaving the European Union was today exposed as a sham.
The former EU commissioner, who is in line to receive an annual pension of £35,000 from Brussels, said ‘nobody’ had warned before the referendum how Britain would leave the single market.
He argued that as ‘new facts are coming to light’ people could change their minds about leaving.
But his argument immediately unravelled as it emerged that he had warned himself that Britain would have to leave the single market just days ahead of the vote last June.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme yesterday, Lord Mandelson said: ‘As the Brexit process continues, new facts are coming to light about all this that no one could have known at the time of the referendum.'
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