Petition · past parliament
Make the result of referenda in the United Kingdom legally binding.
Rejected
21 signatures
What the petition asks
We, the undersigned, believe that the sovereign body and power in the United Kingdom is the British people themselves and that their will MUST be upheld even when expressed via the results of referenda.
We further believe that parliamentarians are using the “advisory” status of referenda in the United Kingdom to ignore the democratically-expressed will of the majority of voters via the European Union Referendum in 2016 based on the supposition that this would violate the principle of parliamentary sovereignty.
We therefore demand that the government should introduce primary legislation at the earliest opportunity to make the result of ALL referenda legally binding on the government.
We therefore demand that the government should introduce primary legislation at the earliest opportunity to make the result of ALL referenda legally binding on the government.
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
Timeline
| 4 Oct 2019 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 8 Oct 2019 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
21
Status
Rejected
Rejected
8 Oct 2019
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.