Many in the UK Are Clamoring for a Brexit Do-Over
By Chas Danner
6/25/2016
Still in the midst of a brutal national hangover after 51.9 percent of UK voters opted to leave the European Union on Thursday,
more than 1.6 million people are now trying to convince Parliament to set up a do-over.
An e-petition urging a second EU referendum has obtained more than a million signatories in the less than two days since voting on the first referendum ended, and the clamor even temporarily crashed the website hosting it. That petition declares: “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.”
It was submitted through a parliamentary petition system in which any petition that obtains 100,000 signatures will trigger a review by a special committee who will then have to consider whether the issue should be raised in the House of Commons.
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