Rejected petition Stop Brexit because there was no legal basis to trigger article 50

Under UK law, referendum results have no legal basis. Therefore there was no legal requirement to trigger article 50. There is no legal reason for the UK to leave the EU.

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Less than 40% of registered voters voted in favour of leave.

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/226509

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Date submitted 28 January 2019
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