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A call to 'take a break from Brexit' for a general election

Over 80% of those DiEM25 members from across Europe who voted to update their stance on Brexit this month chose the call by Yanis Varoufakis for the UK and EU to agree an extension of Article 50 for at least one year.

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Screenshot: Jeremy Corbyn with Yanis Varoufakis at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, October 2018. YouTube.

DiEM25 is launching a national campaign to postpone the Brexit date by a year, by means of a parliamentary petition urging the UK Parliament to request an extension of Article 50 in order to hold a general election.

DiEM25 will do so together with a group of EU citizens living in the UK; UK citizens living across the EU, and UK citizens too young to vote at the time of the Brexit referendum who want to have a voice in a debate which has too often excluded them. With this campaign we seek the support of all British and Northern Irish democrats and indeed of all democrats within and outside the EU.