Just days after voting to leave the European Union, more than 2 million Britons and UK residents have signed a petition calling for a second vote, forcing MPs to at least consider a debate on the issue. Prime Minister David Cameron, who said on Friday he would resign after leading the failed campaign to keep Britain in the EU, had said there would be no second referendum. Parliament has to consider a debate on any petition posted on its website that attracts more than 100,000 signatures. Since then, the petition - which only British citizens or UK residents have the right to sign - was proving so popular that by 1725 GMT on Saturday, 2,005,101 people had signed it. The result on Thursday saw 52 per cent of voters, 17,410,742 people, back a British exit, on a turnout of 72 per cent.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 25, 2016 18:33 UTC