Rejected petition Parliament to decide if Article 50 should be triggered, not PM or successor

We the undersigned call upon the British Parliament to decide if the UK government should trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, to formally initiate the UK’s exit from the EU, on the basis that this decision should not be left to the Prime Minister alone, or to his successor

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Date submitted 25 June 2016
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