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Originally Posted by Stuart
The fact that Parliament are likely to act on the vote does not mean the result of the vote is legally binding. They can just as easily ignore it. From what I read, unless specified otherwise in the act where they are defined, Referendums are purely advisory in our country.
OK, so it is likely that we will leave the EU, but bear in mind that any Prime Minister would need to get MPs to agree to a lot of different things including invoking Article 50. In a house where even though the government has a good majority, it's believed most MPs voted to remain. OK, so they will (hopefully) be looking at what their constituents want, but nationally, this was not a landslide, so they may not be convinced.
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Quite agree
The prime minister has royal prerogative to invoke A50 so in that respect doesn't need the permission of parliament ,but the Government ,headed by the PM has no legal right to change UK laws ,only parliament can enact law or repeal law .Invoking A50 will have the obvious intention of stripping away all our legal rights as EU citizens ,only Parliament can do this and as you say the result was very close and a lot of mp's where remainers ,whether they will risk the wrath of the majority and go against the result of a referendum remains to be seen .....but they could