Northern Ireland Office minister and Steve Baker said a super majority vote in the EU referendum would have avoided the political 'trouble' in its wake.
A Government minister has expressed regret that the Brexit referendum did not require a supermajority to pass.
However, he said such a threshold would have removed the difficulty of politicians not accepting the result. The Northern Ireland minister then cautioned against a “50% plus one” result in any potential Irish unification vote.
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