Rejected petition Hold a second EU Referendum

The grounds for this are that the electorate were grossly misled by the Leave campaign.

Given the importance of the decision, the country owes it to itself to check whether the will of the people has now changed as a result of the exposure of this dishonesty.

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On the day after the vote several advocates of a Leave vote admitted that key claims made by the Leave campaign had been false. These admissions confirmed that the Leave campaigners had deployed "dishonesty on an industrial scale".

Given the importance of the decision, the country owes it to itself to check whether the will of the people has now changed as a result of the exposure of this dishonesty.

In the name of Democracy.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/133753

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Date submitted 1 July 2016
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