Submitted on Saturday 27th September 2025
Rejected on Friday 14th November 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make a legally required referendum on UK petitions with over 500,000 Signatures.
We would like the government to have all petitions on the UK Government website which reach 500,000 signatures to have a referendum across the nation to allow people to express their views. We would also like to legally bind the government to the decision in the petition based on the people's views.
UK petitions do not have any guaranteed way to become law, as they do in other European Democracies like Switzerland, and thus have no relative effect in the governing process, which allows for unpopular policies to be passed without democratic consent. By doing this, the government will be able to increase democratic participation in our system, allow for more power in the decision-making process given to the people and to prevent unpopular and undemocratic polices from passing.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
We think this petition is very similar to yours:
Hold referendum if a petition reaches over 650,000 signatures: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/743620
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