This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition Call a general election before Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty is invoked.
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The results of the EU referendum were sufficiently close that the question of who will negotiate the terms of Britain's exit from the EU should be put to the British people before article 50 is irreversibly invoked.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/136417
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