INDICATIVE VOTES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

Why wasn’t the indicative vote E discussed or voted on – see below for the text

Surely this would have confirmed what the 17.4m voters who voted to Leave wanted from the Referendum.

In effect the HoC were saying we can ignore the result of the 2016 Referendum

No mention in the media

Have I missed something

The public would have then been able to see how their MPs voted on this option

INDICATIVE VOTE:-

E) Respect the referendum result

That this House recalls that this sovereign Parliament gave the choice about whether the UK should remain in, or leave, the European Union to the British people in the 2016 referendum, and that in the 2017 election 85 per cent of votes were cast for political parties which committed to abiding by that decision in their manifestos, and therefore reaffirms its commitment to honour the result of the referendum that the UK should leave the European Union.

HoC Order Paper

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmagenda/ob190327.htm#_idTextAnchor006