Over a million people have signed a petition in the UK calling for a
second referendum over the country's EU membership following the shock
Brexit vote.
The UK voted to leave the EU by 52 to 48 % on Thursday June 23,2016's Referendum but the majority of voters in London, Scotland and Northern
Ireland backed the Remain side in a 72 % turnout
People gathered to protest outside the Houses of Parliament following the leave result
The petition will now have to be discussed in the British Parliament, having crossed 100,000 signatures required to trigger a debate in the House of Commons.
The petition passed the million mark on Saturday morning June 25,2016, with votes most concentrated in London, Brighton, Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester.
The petition started by William Oliver Healey reads, "We the undersigned call upon Her Majesty's Government to implement a rule that if the Remain or Leave vote is less than 60 % based a turnout less than 75 % there should be another referendum."
The website of the parliamentary petition at one point crashed due to the number of people adding their names to the call for another referendum.
It remains unclear if a change to the rules demanded by the petition were to come into force and inserted into UK legislation, could be applied retrospectively.
After the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, the 45 % of voters who lost started a similar campaign for another vote.
A parallel petition calling for London mayor Sadiq Khan to declare 'Londependence', or the British capital an independent state, after the UK voted to quit the EU has also been signed by thousands of people.
The petition's organiser James O'Malley, said the capital was "a world city" which should "remain at the heart of Europe".
An overwhelming 60 % of Londoners had voted to remain in the EU, in stark contrast to other English cities like Birmingham and Coventry.
People gathered to protest outside the Houses of Parliament following the leave result
The petition will now have to be discussed in the British Parliament, having crossed 100,000 signatures required to trigger a debate in the House of Commons.
The petition passed the million mark on Saturday morning June 25,2016, with votes most concentrated in London, Brighton, Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester.
The petition started by William Oliver Healey reads, "We the undersigned call upon Her Majesty's Government to implement a rule that if the Remain or Leave vote is less than 60 % based a turnout less than 75 % there should be another referendum."
The website of the parliamentary petition at one point crashed due to the number of people adding their names to the call for another referendum.
It remains unclear if a change to the rules demanded by the petition were to come into force and inserted into UK legislation, could be applied retrospectively.
After the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, the 45 % of voters who lost started a similar campaign for another vote.
A parallel petition calling for London mayor Sadiq Khan to declare 'Londependence', or the British capital an independent state, after the UK voted to quit the EU has also been signed by thousands of people.
The petition's organiser James O'Malley, said the capital was "a world city" which should "remain at the heart of Europe".
An overwhelming 60 % of Londoners had voted to remain in the EU, in stark contrast to other English cities like Birmingham and Coventry.
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