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23 March 2019

POLITICO: Anti-Brexit march attracts 1 million, say organizers


An estimated 1 million people attended a march in London calling for the British people to have another vote on Brexit.

"The way to break the stalemate is for parliament and the people to come together. The way to reunite our country is to decide on our future together. It’s time to say with one voice: put it to the people," Tom Watson, the Labour party's deputy leader, told the crowd in Parliament Square.

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Protesters want a second referendum in the hope of overturning the 2016 Brexit referendum result. But Prime Minister Theresa May has consistently ruled out another nationwide vote, including in a letter sent to MPs late Friday in which she outlined four options for the U.K. government.

One of those options is for the government to revoke Article 50, which she said would be a betrayal of the Brexit referendum.

An online petition asking the British government to revoke Article 50 and stop Brexit has collected over 4 million signatures, making it the most successful petition ever posted to the parliament's website. [...]

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