Petition for EU referendum re-run hits 3.7m

A petition on the parliament website calling for a rerun of the EU referendum has gathered 3.7 million signatures since the referendum result at the end of last week, according to the Telegraph.

This means the campaign has overtaken the 2007 Downing Street petition urging the Government to abandon plans for pay as you go road pricing which attracted 1.8 million signatures.

Such was the demand to sign the petition that the website crashed as a second petition, urging Sadiq Khan, London’s mayor, to declare the capital’s independence topped 100,000 signatures.

The petition, set up by William Oliver Healey, said: "We the undersigned call upon HM Government to implement a rule that if the Remain or Leave vote is less than 60% based on a turnout less than 75%, there should be another referendum.”

Already one senior Labor MP, David Lammy, has urged fellow MPs to ignore the result of the Referendum which he said was advisory rather than binding on Parliament.

On Twitter he wrote: "We can stop this madness and bring this nightmare to an end through a vote in Parliament. Our sovereign Parliament needs to now vote on whether we should exit the EU. 

Source : MENA