Rejected petition Extend Brexit Period for 6 Months to Ensure Preparedness due to Covid.

To delay the transition / negotiations for at least 6 months to ensure negotiations are afforded full consideration. The Covid Crisis brings many issues to the forefront of concern, particularly around cooperation. This petition is not to prevent Brexit, rather it is to ensure it happens correctly.

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The current Covid Crisis means that our elected members focus,civil servants and wider media coverage and energy is being rightly focused upon it. This does present a risk to our future relationships with the EU and with this others. The petition's intention is not to stifle Brexit. We must make sure that our ongoing position and relationship with Europe is negotiated in a manner that it can be afforded the right scrutiny, across parliament and to enable the public reaction to be incorporated.

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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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You may wish to sign this petition calling for the same action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300412

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

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Date submitted 20 March 2020
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