Anti-Brexit protests broke out on the streets of London after a petition for a second EU referendum attracted 2 million signatures within a day.
The protests came despite a record 33.5 million people taking part in the referendum-the highest in any election since 1992-in which Leave won with 51.9 percent, a margin of 1,269,501 votes.
Two million people have now signed the petition, which the Government must now consider debating in the House of Commons, which it must do for any which gets more than 100,000 names.
But the majority of signatures are from people in London and areas with a high population of students, which predominantly voted Remain, meaning the result may not be any different.
Thousands came from north London, Cambridge and Oxford, while more than 3,000 of David Cameron’s constituents also signed the petition.
The results from the historic EU referendum are awaiting a final declaration and the United Kingdom is projected to have voted to LEAVE the European Union
The referendum saw 51.9% of votes cast to leave the EU, versus 48.1% for Remain, with a turnout of 72.2%, according to the Electoral Commission
Meanwhile, a Senior Labour MP, David Lammy, has urged Parliament to “stop this madness” and vote to overturn the result of the EU referendum.
The former minister said the Commons should “bring this nightmare to an end through a vote in Parliament”.
The MP for Tottenham added: “Our sovereign Parliament needs to now vote on whether we should exit the EU.
“The referendum was an advisory, non-binding referendum.
“The Leave campaign’s platform has already unravelled and some people wish they hadn’t voted to leave.
“Parliament now needs to decide whether we should go forward with Brexit, and there should be a vote in Parliament next week.
“Let us not destroy our economy on the basis of lies and the hubris of Boris Johnson.”
However, he faced criticism on Twitter for insisting the poll was non-binding, being branded “anti-democratic” and “elitist”.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said his comments would push more Labour voters to his party.
Mr Farage said in a twitter post: Labour MP David Lammy demands MPs ignore the referendum result. I’m sure that will drive more Labour voters to UKIP.”
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has already ruled out a second EU referendum despite an online petition calling for a rerun of the vote attracting more than a million supporters.
“The referendum has taken place, a decision has been made, I think we have got to accept that decision and work out our relationship with Europe in the future,” Mr Corbyn said. – Additional report from Sky News.
