After COVID-19 lockdown, seek the closest possible relationship with the EU.

In the interests of returning the economy back to normality, after COVID-19 lockdown, the government should postpone or abandon any potentially disruptive economic experiments and provide certainty and stability. With this is mind, our relationship with the EU should be as close as possible.

We understand that you want the Government to secure a close future relationship with the EU, but we can only accept petitions that make a clear request for the Government to take a specific action, and it is not clear what closest possible relationship.

We have published a petition calling on the Government to rejoin the EU under Article 49 TEU, which you might like to sign: Rejoin the EU under Article 49 TEU

You could also start a petition calling on the Government to seek membership of EFTA, or some other relationship, provided it is clear what relationship you are asking the Government to seek.

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/192/the-governments-response-to-coronavirus/