Government rejects petition to 'cancel Brexit' signed by 5.8 million people

MPs will debate the petition but government says stopping Brexit would ‘break promises’

The British government has rejected a petition calling for Brexit to be stopped, which gathered more than 5.8 million signatures.

The petition is due to be debated by MPs on 1 April, after breaking the 100,000 threshold for consideration and becoming the best-supported proposal in the history of the House of Commons and government’s e-petitions website.

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