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Anti-Brexit marchers flood into London, demand new vote

 

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Associated Press LONDON (AP) โ€” Anti-Brexit protesters flooded into central London by the hundreds of thousands on Saturday, demanding that Britainโ€™s Conservative-led government hold a new referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union.

 

The โ€œPeopleโ€™s Vote Marchโ€ snaked from Park Lane and other locations to converge on the U.K. Parliament, where the fate of Brexit will be decided in the coming weeks.

 

Marchers carried European Union flags and signs praising the longstanding ties between Britain and continental Europe. The protest drew people from across Britain who are determined to force Prime Minister Theresa Mayโ€™s government to alter its march toward Brexit.

 

May also is coming under rising pressure from her own Conservative Party to either step down or set a date for her resignation as her political support continues to wilt. The coming week is seen as crucial as political rivals jockey for position to succeed her.

 

Conservative Party legislator George Freeman tweeted that a new leader is needed.

 

โ€œIโ€™m afraid itโ€™s all over for the PM. Sheโ€™s done her best. But across the country you can see the anger. Everyone feels betrayed. Governmentโ€™s gridlocked. Trust in democracy collapsing. This canโ€™t go on. We need a new PM who can reach out & build some sort of coalition for a Plan B,โ€ he tweeted.

 

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable, invited to help lead the march in favor of a second referendum, called the crowd gathered in central London impressive and unified.

 

โ€œThere is a huge turnout of people here from all walks of life, of all ages and from all over the country,โ€ he tweeted. โ€œWe are a Remain country now with 60 percent wanting to stop the Brexit mess.โ€

 

Police did not provide a crowd estimate. Independent legislator Chuka Umunna and others supporting a second Brexit referendum estimated the crowd at 1 million.

 

More than 4 million people endorsed an electronic petition this week in favor of revoking Article 50, the act that formally triggered the Brexit process.

 

The march comes as May, who opposes a second referendum on Britainโ€™s EU membership, is easing away from plans to hold a third vote on her troubled Brexit withdrawal plan, which has been strongly rejected twice by Parliament.

 

In a letter to lawmakers on Friday night, May said she might not seek passage of her Brexit withdrawal plan in Parliament next week. The embattled leader said she would only bring her EU divorce plan back to Parliament if there seems to be enough backing for it to pass.

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