BREAKING: Revoke Article 50 petition to stop Brexit hits 1,000,000 signatures
A House of Commons spokesperson said: ‘The rate of signing is the highest the site has ever had to deal with and we have had to make some changes to ensure the site remains stable and open for signatures and new petitions.The Prime Minister is facing a backlash from MPs as she heads to Brussels to appeal to EU leaders to grant her delay to Brexit.
It has been rejected twice – the first time by an astonishing 230 votes, which was the largest defeat for any sitting government in history.But so far those efforts have been rebuffed by the Speaker John Bercow, citing a 400-year-old precedent.If Mrs May cannot persuade parliament to back her, then the UK is at great risk of crashing out of the EU without a deal at 11pm on March 29.
Users were quick to share the petition, with celebrities and MPs tweeting their support for Parliament to revoke the Treaty of Lisbon clause which deals with leaving the EU. Mrs May said she considered the delay of Brexit to be a matter of ‘great personal regret’ before rounding on MPs for failing to get her deal through the Commons.She was branded a ‘disgrace’ by fellow MPs before heading to Brussels to hold talks with the EU.supports HTML5 video
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