Rejected petition Following the EU referendum, parliament should hold a general election in 2016.

This will give the electorate an opportunity to consider each party’s plans for our future relationship with the EU.

The UK faces a constitutional crisis if the government unilaterally invokes Article 50 without parliamentary consent and without a mandate for how the UK would exit the EU.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/133551

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Date submitted 11 July 2016
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