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Petition to cancel Brexit crashes UK parliament website
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Mar 21, 2019 09:30am |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Eline Schaart |
| News Date | Thursday, March 21, 2019 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | An online petition calling on U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May to cancel Brexit by revoking Article 50 has attracted nearly one million signatures, crashing the parliament's petitions website Thursday morning.
Andrea Leadsom, leader of the House of Commons, said she had been made aware of technical problems with the site, the BBC reported, but she dismissed the petition as not being of the same significance as the 2016 Brexit referendum.
"Should it reach 17.4 million respondents then I am sure there will be a very clear case for taking action," she told MPs, noting it was "absolutely right that people do have the opportunity to put their views and that can then spark yet another Brexit debate." |
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