This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition British citizens be entitled personally to retain the benefits of EU membership.
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On BBC Radio 4's Today programme (10 March 2017) Guy Verhofstadt, the chief Brexit negotiator at the European Parliament, said that allowing British citizens a right to retain personally the benefits of EU membership should be a priority in Brexit negotiations.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/172021
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