The Brexit Vote of 2016 was a historic referendum in the United Kingdom in which the people voted to leave the European Union. The vote was a major turning point in British politics, as it marked the first time a member state had ever voted to leave the EU. The referendum saw a high turnout
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Parliamentary votes on Brexit, sometimes referred to as "meaningful votes", were the parliamentary votes under the terms of Section 13 of the United Kingdom's European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, which requires the government of the United Kingdom to bring forward an amendable parliamentary motion at the end of the Article 50 negotiations between the government and the European Union in order to ratify the Brexit withdrawal agreement.