This petition was submitted during the 2015–2017 Conservative government
Petition Ask the Government not to invoke article 50 of the Lisbon treaty.
Parliament is sovereign and, if Brexit wins, the Government will not be legally obliged to invoke the Lisbon treaty to start an EU exit. The vote represents less than 75% of the population and already the leave propaganda has been proving untrue.
This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months
Parliament debated this topic
This topic was debated on 17 October 2016
Government responded
This response was given on 11 August 2016
The British people have voted to leave the European Union and their will must be respected and delivered.
Read the response in full
The British people have voted to leave the European Union and their will must be respected and delivered. Article 50 explicitly recognises that a Member State may decide to withdraw “in accordance with its own constitutional requirements”. It is for the Member State concerned to determine what those constitutional requirements are.
Department for Exiting the European Union
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MPs to debate petitions about the UK's exit from the EU
The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate on six petitions relating to the UK's exit from the European Union, including this one.
The debate will take place on Monday 17 October at 4.30pm in Westminster Hall.
You can watch the debate live on Parliament TV: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Commons
The six petitions that will be debated are:
E-petition 133618: "Invoke article 50 of the Lisbon treaty immediately"
E-petition 125333: "Repeal the 1972 European Communities Act immediately on EU referendum out vote"
E-petition 123324: "The 23 June should be designated as Independence Day, and celebrated annually."
E-petition 154593: "Not to allow freedom of movement as part of any deal with the EU after Brexit"
E-petition 133767: "Ask the Government not to invoke article 50 of the Lisbon treaty"
E-petition 133540: "Let Parliament decide whether or not we remain a member of the European Union"
What will happen?
Paul Scully MP, a Member of the Petitions Committee will open the debate. Other MPs will then take part.
MPs can discuss one or more of the six petitions and, if they wish, ask questions about the government's position on the issue or press the government to take action. A government minister will respond to the points raised at the end of the debate.
Petition debates in Westminster Hall cannot directly change the law or result in a vote to implement the request of a petition. They are a way to help raise the profile of a campaign and could influence decision-making in Government and Parliament.
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You may also be interested to know that on Wednesday 12 October, MPs debated Parliamentary scrutiny of leaving the EU.
You can watch the debate on Parliament TV: http://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/9da7b790-789f-46f3-8fbd-b0cc29e949fb?in=12:56:50
You can read the debate on the Hansard website:
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-10-12/debates/F327EC64-3777-4D40-A98D-BEC2E11763A2/ParliamentaryScrutinyOfLeavingTheEU?utm_source=petitions
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