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More Than One Million People Sign Petition Calling For Second EU Referendum

More Than One Million People Sign Petition Calling For Second EU Referendum

Politicians are set to discuss the possibility on Tuesday.

Sian Broderick

Sian Broderick

More than one million people have signed a petition calling for a second referendum on the UK's membership of the EU.

Britain voted to leave the European Union by 52% to 48% in Thursday's referendum. However, it looks like the petition will now be considered by Parliament as it has passed the required 100,000 threshold.

The guy who set it up, 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."

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Politicians are set to discuss the possibility of a second referendum on Tuesday.

When a remain vote was considered likely in May, Ukip leader Nigel Farage suggested he would support a second referendum if his side lost by a narrow margin as it would be 'unfinished business'.

He told Mirror Online: "In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way. If the Remain campaign win two-thirds to one-third that ends it." However, he's probably hoping everybody forgot he said that today.

There is a lot of concern from the English and Welsh that considering Scotland has been pushed out of the EU unwillingly, the country will get a second Independence Referendum - and this time the SNPs would get their way.

Leader of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon, has said a second independence referendum is "highly likely" after all 32 local authorities in Scotland delivered a remain vote.

Another worry is that Londoners are already trying to have London become part of the EU separate to the UK - and as the financial hub of the country, this would throw the rest of the country into more even more disarray.

Sinn Féin has already called for a referendum in Northern Ireland to reunify Ireland. People are concerned that Brexit is going to mean the break up of the whole of the UK.

Wales, however, seems fairly happy over Brexit. No dissent in The Valleys.

Words by Laura Hamilton

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