Important:

This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament

Rejected petition British Citizens to be entitled to be granted membership of the EU

In the event of withdrawal of the UK many British Citizens will want to have membership of the European Union

This petition was rejected

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.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/172021

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