«Breaking News» Philip Hammond says a second referendum should be among Brexit 'propositions' considered by MPs

Philip Hammond has said a second EU referendum is a 'perfectly coherent proposition' as he urged MPs to decide on a 'compromise' Brexit deal if they cannot back Theresa May.

The Chancellor said that 'one way or another' Parliament would this week be able to show what it wanted from Brexit, rather than constantly showing what it does not want.

Mr Hammond told Sky's Ridge on Sunday that Mrs May's Brexit deal - already defeated twice by MPs - was his 'preferred way forward' but admitted: 'I'm realistic that we may not be able to get a majority'.

'One way or another Parliament is going to have the opportunity this week to decide what it is in favour of, and I hope that it will take that opportunity - if it can't get behind the Prime Minister's deal - to say clearly and unambiguously what it can get behind,' he added.

But he warned that any alternative deal must be 'a variant that is deliverable, not some unicorn'.

Philip Hammond said Mrs May's Brexit deal was his 'preferred way forward' but admitted: 'I'm realistic that we may not be able to get a majority'

Theresa May leaving church today. She is spending the weekend at Chequers working out her next move as ministers plot her downfall

The Chancellor said Parliament would be given the chance to hold indicative votes on alternatives to Mrs May's Brexit deal this week. 

Tomorrow Parliament debates an amendable Government motion on the Brexit deal, which gives MPs a chance to put their favoured outcomes to a vote. 

And the day after an estimated one million people marched through London demanding a second referendum, Mr Hammond added: 'I'm not sure that there's a majority in Parliament for a second referendum but it's a perfectly coherent proposition.

'Many people will be strongly opposed to it, but it's a coherent proposition and it deserves to be considered along with the other proposals.'

Mr Hammond also hit out at suggestions he was backing Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington as a caretaker Prime Minister to replace Mrs May.

'Changing Prime Minister wouldn't help us, changing the party in Government wouldn't help us,' he told Sky.

Mr Hammond denied helping a campaign to replace Mrs May (pictured above today with husband Philip), saying: 'Changing Prime Minister wouldn't help us, changing the party in Government wouldn't help us'

'We've got to address the question of what type of Brexit is acceptable to Parliament, what type of way forward Parliament can agree on so that we can avoid what would be an economic catastrophe of a no-deal exit and also what would be a very big challenge to confidence in our political system if we didn't exit at all.' 

Former Tory leader and ex-Work and Pensions Secretary urged fellow Brexiteers to keep their options open on whether to support the Prime Minister's deal if it comes back to the Commons this week.

He said: 'I'm going to keep, and I recommend my colleagues do, keep their options open on this because we don't know what's happening this week, we've no idea what the alternatives are and whether people vote for this or not depends hugely on whether we are able to leave with no-deal or not or whether there is a change to this.'

He attacked MPs including former Cabinet colleague Oliver Letwin, who is behind a cross-party attempt to find out what Mps will back through a series of votes, criticising 'this idea that Parliament ... full of people that sometimes couldn't even run a whelk stall, can actually run the government for 15 minutes or a day or something like that.' 

Former Tory leader and ex-Work and Pensions Secretary said he was 'keeping his options open' about how me might vote next week, saying efforts by MPs to take control of the Government must be defeated

Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett MP said: 'Philip Hammond's interview was extraordinary.

'The Chancellor signaled that the deal they've worked on for nearly three years is dead and junked the idea of no deal which Theresa May has held onto from the beginning.

'This is a Government in which the country can have no confidence as the Chancellor confirmed we are on the edge of a catastrophe.'

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