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A petition calling for a second EU referendum has reached more than 150,000 signatures - and will be considered for debate in Parliament

The page , set up by William Oliver Healey, reads: “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.”

It attracted nearly 10,000 in just an hour on Friday morning and by Friday evening had reached more than 157,000.

If a petition gets more than 10,000 signatures, the Government will respond.

With more than 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament.

The petition proved so popular that the website kept crashing. Several users took to Twitter to complain that they were having trouble accessing the site.

(Image: Danny Lawson/PA Wire)

A House of Commons spokeswoman said: “UK Parliament and the Government Digital Service are aware of the issue and are working on this to ensure the site is working well.

“The site was temporarily down for some users due to high volumes of users.”

It comes weeks after Nigel Farage said he would fight for a second referendum on Britain's membership of the EU if the Remain campaign won by a 52% to 48% margin – the same margin Leave in fact ended up winning by.

The Ukip leader said a small defeat for his leave camp would be “unfinished business".

He said: “In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way. If the remain campaign win two-thirds to one-third that ends it.”