Submitted on Monday 17th November 2025
Rejected on Tuesday 16th December 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Hold a public consultation and/or a public vote on joining the EFTA and the EEA!
We want to publicly explore the option of joining the EFTA either with a Norway-style deal in the EEA or with a Switzerland-style deal outside of the EEA. As per the 2016 referendum, the government has withdrawn from the EU, but the deal we wanted wasn't so clear. The country now knows what we want.
A 2016 YouGov poll suggests a majority of voters supported keeping European Single Market access: 42% of Leavers (~22% of total voters). Add on the 48% of people who voted Remain, results in 70% in favour of ESM access!
An EFTA deal honours the referendum and keeps the UK out of the EU while retaining the ESM benefits that most people wanted then and still want know, avoiding joining the Eurozone and Schengen Area, and keeping new FTAs with countries like India and Australia. It's a no brainer!
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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.
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You may wish to sign these petitions which call for similar actions:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730858
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/729377
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