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> There is no legal reason why ministers cannot reject Brexit;

There is, for a revocation of article 50 notice to be legal, Parliament has to pass a motion directing the Government to do so[1].

[1] https://ukandeu.ac.uk/revoking-article-50-after-the-ecjs-rul...

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> There is, for a revocation of article 50 notice to be legal, Parliament has to pass a motion directing the Government to do so[1].

We're talking here about what MPs can reject or not, and the fact that Parliament must direct the government before the government doing it is legal is not a legal barrier to MPs taking action on it (the form of which action would be an Act of Parliament directing the government.)

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