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A petition to Revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit at the stroke of a pen has now been signed by more than six million people.

MPs will discuss the call in Parliament tomorrow after the total signing it became the highest for any UK Parliament petition ever.

Last week EU Council President Donald Tusk said the six million people who have so far supported it must be listened to.

But the government have already said they won't be revoking Article 50.

In an official response posted on the parliamentary petitions website, the Government said: "This Government will not revoke Article 50. We will honour the result of the 2016 referendum and work with Parliament to deliver a deal that ensures we leave the European Union."

Article 50 is the two-year legal countdown to Brexit that was meant to end on March 29, and is now set to end on April 12.

Revoking it can be done by the UK without the EU's permission - and revocation is one of three options Theresa May faces if she has no deal in two weeks' time.

The other options are either crashing out of the EU with no deal or agreeing a "long" delay, of around a year, with Brussels chiefs.

Revoking Article 50 is one of eight "indicative" options that MPs voted on last week, and it gained the backing of 184 MPs including 111 from Labour.

But 293 voted against, with a customs union or second referendum proving more popular.

The Commons Petitions Committee said the petition is "the most signed petition ever received on the House of Commons and Government petitions site".

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The previous record was 4.1 million signatures on a petition demanding a second referendum on Brexit.

EU chiefs agreed to extend the UK's membership until April 12 - or May 22 if Theresa May had passed her Withdrawal Agreement by Friday. But she missed the deadline of 11pm on March 29.

On April 1 alongside the Revoke Article 50 poll, MPs will also debate petitions calling for a second EU referendum, which has received more than 120,000 signatures, and another - signed by more than 140,000 - demanding that the UK leave with or without a deal on March 29.

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Hundreds of thousands of people marched on Parliament last Saturday to demand a second referendum on Brexit .

Organisers of the Put it to the People march claimed one million people joined the peaceful procession through the capital.

Parliament's website crashed several times as it struggled under the weight of people signing the petition.

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It has experienced the fastest ever signing-up rate of any petition and is by far the most popular of the current parliament.

It has also outstripped a petition backed by more than 1.8 million people calling for US President Donald Trump not to make a state visit to the UK.

More than 4million people signed another petition in 2016 which called for another EU referendum in the event that neither the remain or leave camps achieved 60 percent of the vote.

The petition states: "The government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is 'the will of the people'"

"We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now, for remaining in the EU.

"A People's Vote may not happen - so vote now."

Friday also saw thousands of Leave voters gather outside Parliament, calling for the government to follow through on the Brexit vote and leave the EU.

Parliament must consider holding a debate on all petitions that gain more than 100,000 signatures.

But tomorrow's debate - in the second chamber Westminster Hall - will have no binding legal power.