A referendum to enquire if UK should trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Following the UK referendum on 25th of June 51.9% of British people decided that United Kingdom should leave the European Union (EU). For this to become effective the UK Prime Minister needs to trigger article 50 and start the formal and legal process of leaving the EU.

In his resignation speech, David Cameron made it clear that the new prime minister should take the decision about when to trigger article 50. After Brexit results many British citizens regretted their decision after political pledges were retracted and effects on economy became evident. Moreover, the large number of British citizen (48.1%) who wanted to remain in EU felt betrayed from the referendum system. With this petition we pose a democratic request to give UK citizen a second opinion on BREXIT results.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

A second referendum to consider the issue of Brexit before Article 50 is invoked

Timeline

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

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 6 Jul 2016

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