A petition demanding plans to suspend Parliament are halted has smashed 200,000 signatures - just hours after it was set up.
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 announced he planned to prorogue Parliament in order to push through his "legislative programme".
By 1.45pm on Wednesday, it had reached 215,000 signatures.
Set up by Mark Johnston, it 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 as he risked dragging the Queen into the bitter Brexit row.
Mr Bercow interrupted his holiday to launch a tirade against the Prime Minister, saying: "However it is dressed up, it is blindingly obvious that the purpose of prorogation now would be to stop Parliament debating Brexit and performing its duty in shaping a course for the country."
Mr Johnson spoke to the Queen on Wednesday morning to request an end to the current parliamentary session in the second sitting week in September - a process known as prorogation - until October 14 when there will be a Queen's Speech to open a new session of Parliament.
It would give MPs just two weeks to use parliamentary procedures before the October 31 Brexit deadline.
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn accused Mr Johnson of a "smash-and-grab on our democracy in order to force through a no-deal exit from the European Union."
Mr Johnson said it was "completely untrue" to suggest Brexit was the reason for his decision, insisting he needed a Queen's Speech to set out a "very exciting agenda" of domestic policy.
