A petition demanding plans to suspend Parliament are halted has been signed 500,000 times in less than a day.
The petition on Parliament's website easily passed the 100,000 benchmark needed to be debated by MPs, just hours after Prime Minister Boris Johnson detailed plans to prorogue Parliament in order to push through his "legislative programme".
Then, within hours of this plan being approved by the Queen, it hit the half a million mark - standing at 501,052 at time of writing.
Set up by Mark Johnston, the petition reads: "Parliament must not be prorogued or dissolved unless and until the Article 50 period has been sufficiently extended or the UK's intention to withdraw from the EU has been cancelled."
The petition has been promoted by people and groups including Liberal Democrat MPs Layla Moran and Chuka Umunna, the Green Party and Women's Equality Party.
Mr Johnson has been accused of a "constitutional outrage" by Commons speaker John Bercow.
However, he has denied his Brexit plans are a motivator for the move, stating it is for his legislative agenda to be able to be processed.
The Queen approved the plans to prorogue Parliament following a request from the Prime Minister.
Boris Johnson asked to temporarily close down the Commons from the second week of September until October 14, when there will be a Queen's Speech to open a new session of Parliament.
The PM spoke to the Queen on Wednesday morning, to request the end to the current parliamentary session in the second sitting week in September.
A Privy Council meeting was held at Balmoral to sign off Mr Johnson's plan, with Parliament now to be suspended no earlier than September 9 and no later than September 12.
