d. w. charlotte ponce speaking to me earlier from london and it's not just on the streets that britons have been expressing their wish to stop threats it and remain in the e.u. millions of people have signed an online petition calling for a second referendum and the figure is rapidly rising joining me in the studio now to tell us more as you give your porter public fully ileus public break this down for us who exactly is behind this petition and what exactly are they asking for well her name is margaret georgette do as she describes herself as simply a frustrated remain or so she says an average british citizen this petition actually started at the end of february and just to make one thing very clear a petition only needs ten thousand signatures for the government then to respond i just checked a few minutes ago and it stands at over four and a half million people have signed this petition which is an incredible number now if we actually take a look at what the petition actually says it says the government repeatedly claims exiting the e.u. is the will of the people we need to put a stop t