Brexit march descends on London as they are told 'Britons just want to get on with it!'

Protesters are descending on the capital on the second anniversary of the landmark vote as Mr Johnson says citizens want the Government to fulfill the mandate and deliver Brexit regardless of what they voted two years ago.

Writing in The Sun he said: “Across the country I find people who - whatever they voted two years ago - just want us to get on and do it.

"They don't want a half-hearted Brexit. They don't want some sort of hopeless compromise, some perpetual push me-pull you arrangement in which we stay half-in and half-out in a political no man's land - with no more ministers round the table in Brussels and yet forced to obey EU laws.

"They don't want some bog roll Brexit, soft, yielding and seemingly infinitely long. They want this Government to fulfil the mandate of the people and deliver a full British Brexit."

Brexit rebel MPs and activists including Gina Miller are leading thousands of protesters calling for a second referendum today, on the anniversary of the UK's vote to quit the EU.

The demonstration is dubbed the 'March for a People's Vote' and speakers at the event will include Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable, Tory rebel Anna Soubry, Labour MP David Lammy and Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas.

Mr Cable is expected to say: "Brexit is not a done deal. Brexit is not inevitable. Brexit can be stopped. Parliament is fiddling at the margins while the country slowly burns. 

He is expected to spin that Brexit will "slowly and painfully" damage the country.

Mr Cable will add: "Theresa May admits there will be damage. Her policy is damage limitation. Better to stop the damage. To return the issue to the people, to vote on the deal (or no deal).

"With the option of staying in the EU and working to improve it rather than walk away.

Businesswoman Gina Miller, who took the Government to court over Brexit, will also give a speech in favour of a second referendum.

The protest, will end at Parliament Square and is being supported by anti-Brexit groups including Open Britain, the successor to the failed Britain Stronger in Europe campaign.

Ahead of the demonstration, a People’s Vote campaigner was shut down during a Sky News interview after making bold claims that the UK will be one of the least sovereign countries in the world after Brexit. 

Femi Oluwole, a campaigner wanting a second Brexit vote, claimed the Brexit transitional period would leave the UK as one of the least sovereign countries.

Mr Oluwole, a co-founder of Our Future, Our Choice said: “Nobody is getting what they voted for. We have been touring the country as part of the People’s Vote campaign asking people in Leave areas, Hull, Darlington, Swansea, Sunderland - and we’ve been asking them how do you think it is going?

“Nobody thinks it is going well, everyone thinks it is going terribly. When you ask them the things that they wanted and why they were voting for Brexit, they say things like sovereignty.

“Well actually we are ending up less sovereign and we are going to be ending up copying the rules of the European Union but we will no longer have a say in those rules. That leaves us as a less sovereign country then European Union members.”

The Sky News presenter Stephen Dixon responded: “Hold on, what are you talking about? We are not going to be copying rules of the EU unless that is part of a transition period which will come to an end.”

“Anti-Brexit campaigners are taking to London’s streets today for a demonstration called the “March for a People’s Vote”.

Organisers said it would the biggest pro-EU protest since the 2016 referendum, attracting tens of thousands of activists.

Labour MP Chuka Umunna said ahead of the demonstration: "Momentum is building behind the campaign for a people's vote on the final Brexit deal.

"This Saturday will see tens of thousands from all over the UK marching for a people's vote in London and support is growing across the country.

"With the negotiations in chaos, with the Government making a total mess of Brexit and with Parliament paralysed, now is the time for people to take back control of the process."

And Best for Britain CEO Eloise Todd said: "It's time to follow the will of the people and put the terms of the Brexit deal to them in a people's vote.

"Across the country, doubts about Brexit mean people have started to change their mind.

"Politicians must not ignore that – the public would never forgive them."

The demonstration comes after the landmark EU Withdrawal Bill passed through Parliament, paving the way for Brexit.

Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29 next year, although the process of fully quitting the bloc could take several years.

The UK will remain in the EU's customs union for at least two years under Theresa May's proposed transition period.

This means Britain will keep paying into the EU budget and remain subject to EU rules and regulations for the duration of the transition.