Petition · past parliament

Investigate whether the result of the EU referendum is legally binding.

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

Significant claims made in the campaign appear to be untrue.
Two major claims appear to be unfounded.
1) that we will have £350 million pounds per week available to spend on public services. In fact the net contribution to the eu is £8.5 billion which is around £165 million per week.
2) “Turkey (population 76 million) is joining the EU,”. In fact Britain (and other countries) has (have) the right of veto in the matter of allowing new countries to have free movement within Europe.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

If you think the result of the referendum should not be viewed as legally binding, you could sign this petition:

United Kingdom to not leave the EU

Timeline

25 Jun 2016 Petition opened for signatures
14 Jul 2016 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18
Status Rejected
Rejected 14 Jul 2016

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.