Brexit: Petition for second EU referendum so popular the government site's crashing

“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,’ the petition, filed this morning, reads.

At the time of writing, the petition is difficult to access, presumably due to a surge of traffic.

The count is climbing at roughly a thousand signatures a minute.

All petitions to the site that receive over 100,000 signatures must be considered for debate in Parliament by law, as was the case with the cannabis legalisation one.

Of course, a second referendum would almost certainly be rejected, as referenda are not the sort of thing you get a second crack at.

Britain voted to leave the European Union by a narrow margin today, with a turnout of 72 per cent.

Leave won the referendum with 51.9 per cent (17,410,742 votes), while Remain finished on 48.1 per cent (16,141,241 votes).

David Cameron, who backed the Remain campaign, announced his resignation outside Downing Street today.

He said that it was “not right” for him to be “the captain that steers the country” in a new direction.

With his voice breaking, he continued: “I Iove this country and will do everything I can to serve it,” but added “the will of the British people is an instruction that must be delivered.”

Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London (which overwhelmingly voted Remain), insisted there is “no need to panic” in light of the Brexit, but said that “we all have a responsibility to now seek to heal the divisions that have emerged throughout this campaign - and to focus on that which unites us, rather than that which divides us.”