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PRIVACY

Brexit petition calling for second EU referendum hits 1.6 MILLION and becomes most popular in parliamentary history

Angry Brits are demanding a re-run of the referendum following Friday's narrow decision to leave the EU

The petition is proving popular(Getty)

A petition calling for a second EU referendum has hit 1.6 MILLION signatures and become the most popular in parliamentary history.

The surge came as more than 100,000 people signed a petition calling on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to declare the capital independent from the UK and apply to join the European Union.

On Friday, the government's petitions website saw such an "exceptionally high" number of visits it crashed.

And by Saturday morning, the petition was being signed by more than 100,000 people an hour.

Only 100,000 signatures are needed to trigger a debate on the topic in Parliament.

It was set up by William Oliver Healey who states: "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."

On Thursday 51.9% of votes were cast to leave the EU, versus 48.1% for remaining part of the bloc.

A map of the signatures indicated that most activity was in England's major cities.