Rejected petition Put the invocation of Article 50 to parliamentary vote.

Rejected on 22 July 2016

Over 1,000 barristers petitioned the PM that the EU referendum is only advisory, being based on “misrepresentations of fact and promises that could not be delivered”, and because no threshold was set. There should be a free vote in parliament before Article 50 can be triggered.

We agree.

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/133540

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.