LONDON — A petition calling for the UK to hold a second referendum on membership in the European Union surpassed 1.3 million signatures on Saturday, in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the 28-member bloc.
The demand to sign the parliamentary petition briefly caused the government website to crash on Friday. A House of Commons spokeswoman told the Guardian that the site was temporarily taken down due to “exceptionally high volumes of simultaneous users on a single petition, significantly higher than on any previous occasion.”
More about Uk, Petition, Eu Referendum, Brexit, and World
