More than one million people have signed a petition in the United Kingdom calling for a second EU referendum.
Britain yesterday voted to break out of the European Union, in a thunderous decision that sent shockwaves across Europe and the rest of the world.
The final result showed 17.4 million people voted Leave, while 16.1 million people voted Remain.
Since then, a petition has been created by William Oliver Healey, calling for the "Government to implement a rule that if the remain or leave vote is less than 60 per cent based [on] a turnout less than 75 per cent, there should be another referendum".
Turnout for the EU referendum was 72.2 per cent.
The petition gave a deadline of November 25, 2016, but just one day after the shock result, it has attracted more than 1,025,319 signatures.
At one point, the website crashed due to the surge of people adding their names.
On Friday (local time), a House of Commons spokeswoman said the website had been taken out of action temporarily because of "exceptionally high volumes of simultaneous users on a single petition, significantly higher than on any previous occasion".
The UK Government responds to all petitions that get more than 10,000 signatures and their Parliament considers all petitions that get more than 100,000.
The Parliament's Petitions Committee, which considers whether such submissions should be raised in the House of Commons, the lower house of Parliament, is to hold its next meeting on Tuesday (local time).
A map of the petition signatures showed that most came from England's major cities, topped by London where there is a separate petition calling on Mayor Sadiq Khan to declare the capital independent from the United Kingdom, and apply to join the EU.
ABC/AFP