AN OVERWHELMING number of those who attended a Brexit Question Time organised by pro-EU group Swindon for Europe want another vote on the matter.

But Liz Webster, who stood as the Liberal Democrat candidate for North Swindon in last year's general election is not so sure.

She thinks a second vote on Brexit might again see a vote to leave the EU.

Liz was part of the panel at New College along with philosopher Professor AC Grayling, lawyer and writer Ben Baccas, trade expert Jason Hunter, Open University law lecturer Dr Robert Palmer, and South Swindon Labour candidate Sarah Church.

She said: "A lot of people aren't that interested in Brexit, in what's been going on. They think it wasn't a disaster the day after the referendum - that it's like the Millennium Bug; a lot of hype that didn't happen - and they think they'll vote to leave again."

When asked to raise their hands by chairman Wiltshire councillor Gavin Grant, only a few out of the hundred or so people in the Phoenix Theatre showed they were against a second vote.

But Sarah Church also had reservations when Prof Grayling said such a vote was the "silver bullet to stop Brexit."

She thought that the tangled question of the Irish border would be be Brexit's undoing. Se said: "I served in Northern Ireland as a soldier. It's inconceivable to undo the Good Friday Agreement and have any sort of border on the island of Ireland.

"It's such an intractable problem I think if anything will stop Brexit it's Ireland or we'll be so closely aligned to the EU it won't make any difference."

Both Dr Palmer and Prof Grayling warned that putting a border between Northern Ireland and the Republic would be likely to resurrect violence.

Prof Grayling said: "It's not just [Brexit-supporting MPs] the European Research Group who want chaos. I was told in Dublin that some are just looking for the opportunity to go back to war."

He said that at meeting with MPs he'd been told there wasn't a a sufficient majority to vote for the government's favoured Chequers Agreement, nor for 'no deal', and that another referendum was 'nigh on a certainty."