Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :

To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, whether his Department has sought legal advice on (a) holding a second referendum on EU membership and (b) reversing Article 50.

The Government are maintaining the general practice of successive Governments not to comment on legal advice that may or may not have been sought or received.

As a matter of firm policy we will not revoke Article 50 or hold a second referendum. A clear majority of the electorate voted to leave the EU and we must respect both the will of the British people, and the democratic process which delivered this result.

The British people gave a clear instruction to leave, and we are delivering on that instruction.