Michael Gove today warned that a second Brexit referendum would 'rip apart the social fabric' of the UK.
The Environment Secretary said any attempt to re-run the historic vote would do terrible damage to 'faith in democracy' - as it would effectively be telling the public they were 'too thick' to choose properly.
Mr Gove, a leading light in the Leave campaign, also gave firm backing for Theresa May's Brexit deal with the EU, while he admitting key parts of it made him 'uncomfortable'.
He suggested the PM's package was 'better' than a Norway-style fallback plan being mooted by some ministers - but did not completely rule out the idea.
The intervention, in an interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr show, came after Mrs May vowed defiance as she stares down the barrel of a catastrophic Commons defeat.
Michael Gove, a leading light in the Leave campaign, also gave firm backing for Theresa May's Brexit deal with the EU, while he admitting key parts of it made him 'uncomfortable'
The premier insisted she will face down massive opposition from more than 100 Tory rebels, Labour, theSNP and the Lib Dems to the package she thrashed out with the EU.
She said the next nine days will 'determine the future' of the UK.
But she was humiliatingly forced to deny that the G20 summit in Argentina could be her last foreign trip as PM - saying there is 'a lot more for me still to do'.
The scale of the challenge facing Mrs May was underlined over the weekend with the resignation of universities minister Sam Gyimah, who joined demands for a second referendum.
One No10 aide is reported to have complained that the PM is acting like Hitler in his bunker at the end of the Second World War, insisting victory can still be secured.
Despite the mounting woes, Mr Gove said he still believed the government can win the crucial Commons vote on December 11.
He said the alternative was either 'no deal or no Brexit', and suggested one potential outcome was a second referendum.
'I believe that we can win the argument and win the vote. I know it is challenging,' he said.
'I reflected long and hard about this deal but I concluded, like lots of people, that while it is imperfect it is the right thing to do.
'One of the things that I hope people will have the chance to do over the next nine days is to recognise that we should not make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Theresa May insisted she will face down massive opposition from more than 100 Tory rebels, Labour, the SNP and the Lib Dems to the package she thrashed out with the EU
'We have got to recognise that if we don't vote for this, the alternatives are no deal or no Brexit.'
Asked about the growing pressure for a fresh referendum, Mr Gove warned that it would be highly damaging for the country,
He said he believed Leave would win any contest by more than in 2016.
'I actually think if there were a second referendum people would vote to leave the EU in larger numbers than before,' he said.
'But the very act of calling a second referendum I believe would damage faith in democracy and rip apart the social fabric of the country.'
He said: 'Why are we asking people again - on the basis they got it wrong the last time around?
'They were too thick to make the decision then, were they?'
Mr Gove acknowledged he was uncomfortable about the Irish border 'backstop' in the Brexit deal, but said that if it was activated it would be even more uncomfortable for the EU.
'The critical thing about the backstop is however uncomfortable it is for the UK, it is more uncomfortable for the European Union,' he said.
'We will have tariff-free access to their markets without paying a penny. And, more than that, we will have control of our borders.
'While it does contain elements that for a Unionist or for a Brexiteer aren't perfect, it also contains elements that for any European politician would allow them to see Britain having a competitive advantage over their own country and their own economy.
'This fundamentally works against the interests of the single market and against the interests of European nations.'
He dismissed a claim by French president Emmanuel Macron that the EU would be able to use the backstop to extract concessions from Britain over access to fisheries.
'He doesn't have us over a barrel. We have got him over a barrel of herring and a barrel of mackerel. He wants that access to our waters. We can sit in the backstop and say 'No, absolutely not',' he said.
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Main photo article Michael Gove today warned that a second Brexit referendum would ‘rip apart the social fabric’ of the UK.
The Environment Secretary said any attempt to re-run the historic vote would do terrible damage to ‘faith in democracy’ – as it would effectively be telling the...
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