A petition on the parliament website calling for a rerun of theEU referendum has gathered more than one million signatures in less than 24 hours.
At the present rate of progress by the middle of next week  the campaign could overtake 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. On Thursday 51.9 percent of votes were cast to leave the EU, versus 48.1 percent for remaining part of the bloc. However, the narrow win masked regional discrepancies which saw majorities in favour of remaining in the EU among voters inScotland, Northern Ireland and London.

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.”
Meanwhile the demand for London to secede was on the Change.orgwebsite. Set up by James O’Malley, it read: “Let’s face it – the rest of the country disagrees. So rather than passive aggressively vote against each other at every election, let’s make the divorce official and move in with our friends on the continent.

Source: telegraph.co.uk