There is a way out of the unprecedented crisis in which the UK has been plunged by the Brexit referendum. Constitutionally, the result does not bind the Government or Parliament, which alone holds the power to initiate the withdrawal procedure enshrined in article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. In the calamitous situation unleashed on the country by the referendum result, and especially given the inadequacy of the mandate that the Leavers purport to hold in consequence of the referendum, the Government would unquestionably be acting, not only constitutionally, but in the national interest, by seeking a fresh political mandate to keep the United Kingdom in the European Union through an early general election.
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