A petition to revoke article 50 and remain in the EU has set new records by achieving more than three million signatures.
As was reported yesterday, the petition on the government's website has had the highest rate of signings ever, with almost 2,000 signatures a minute.
The petition committee, which runs the UK Government and Parliament site has had to make changes to accommodate the unprecedented amount of web traffic, which has included 80,000 to 100,000 people trying to view the petition at any one time.
The petition was created by Margaret Anne Georgiadou in February, but went viral yesterday, following Theresa May's Brexit speech the previous evening.
Dr Alan Whitehead, Labour MP for Southampton, Test, said that the petition is "a significant intervention in the debate" about leaving the EU.
"It demonstrates how many people feel that this is a possible route to take under extreme circumstances, when there's been a dereliction of duty by the Prime Minister in this case, in ensuring that we don't leave the EU without a deal," he said.
"If the Prime Minister is defeated in her deal but doesn't do anything about it, we could still leave the EU with no deal.
"One of the few things that Parliament would have available to stop that from happening would be revoking Article 50 and it can do that without the agreement of the EU 27.
"This petition shows that a significant number of people believe that this is a potential option if all else has failed, to put the breaks on.
"For it to now have reached the three million mark shows the strength of feeling that we must not have a no deal, and that if necessary, we need to do something very serious to avoid that."
Dr Whitehead added that his preferred option would be for parliament to reach an agreement on a deal on condition that this would then be put to a public vote to be ratified, in a second referendum.
Royston Smith, Conservative MP for Southampton, Itchen, told the Echo that it was likely that the petition would be debated next week in Westminster, adding that the outcome would carry no formal weight and that he did not think the petition was likely to influence the outcome of MPs votes on Brexit proposals, also set to take place next week.
He added that he would not support revoking Article 50 as it was not the will of his constituents.
"People like me try to do for our constituents what we say we will do for them," he said.
"I said 'I will accept what you vote for (in the referendum) and will do my best to implement what you want'. I think that's the most important part of our democracy."
Sam Wise, 46, a training designer from Southampton, campaigned for 'remain' before the referendum and believes that the reaction to the petition shows the strength of desire to stop the Brexit process.
"Before the referendum, Nigel Farage said that 52 percent for remain would be unfinished business. Well, current opinion polls show that 56 percent of people now want to remain, and this petition has shot up to almost a million in no time.
"It seems a no-brainer to now ask people if they want to leave on any of the terms offered, or if they want to remain in the EU.
"There's a desire by extreme leavers to monopolise democracy based on one vote at one point in time and ignore the fact that while everyone voting 'remain' knew what they were voting for, those voting 'leave' didn't.
"Now the options are clear, we should be given the chance to say whether we want those options of if we want to remain, and the response to this petition already shows how important this is."