{"id":255266,"date":"2016-07-11T13:32:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T13:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/parliament-should-approve-brexit-first-uk-lawyers\/"},"modified":"2016-07-11T21:37:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T21:37:29","slug":"parliament-should-approve-brexit-first-uk-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/parliament-should-approve-brexit-first-uk-lawyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament should approve Brexit first: UK lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"95\">\n<p><strong>Over a thousand British lawyers have signed a letter addressed to Prime Minister David Cameron, saying that the June 23 vote to exit the European Union (EU) was not \u201clegally binding\u201d and needs a parliamentary vote to materialize.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last month, 52 percent of British voters opted to leave the union after 43 years of membership in the 28-nation bloc.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers, however, argue that MPs should be allowed a free vote on the decision before London invokes the Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty and enters a two-year timeline to exit the EU.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is evidence that the referendum result was influenced by misrepresentations of fact and promises that could not be delivered,\u201d wrote Philip Kolvin, one of the letter\u2019s main coordinators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the result was only narrowly in favor of Brexit, it cannot be discounted that the misrepresentations and promises were a decisive or contributory factor in the result,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The vote to leave the EU caused&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/07\/11\/474645\/UK-Brexit-lawyers-Cameron-EU-Parliament\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a thousand British lawyers have signed a letter addressed to Prime Minister David Cameron, saying that the June 23 vote to exit the European Union (EU) was not \u201clegally binding\u201d and needs a parliamentary vote to materialize. Last month, 52 percent of British voters opted to leave the union after 43 years of membership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}