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700,000 people march in support of second referendum on Brexit

More than half a million people took part in a rally in London calling for a final say on the Brexit negotiations. 

The march was organised by the People’s Vote campaign, a grass-root movement. According to the People’s Vote, around 700,000 people attended, which would make this the biggest demonstration of its kind and the second largest protest in the UK since the 2003 Stop the War demonstration.  

People came from every corner of the country. They gathered on Park Lane and then marched to Parliament Square, where a number of MPs and politicians addressed the crowds, including the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan. 

Nicholas Kerr, chair of the MdiKent4Eu group, said that people in 2016 voted without knowing what Brexit really meant. He said: “We should be able to at least vote on whether or not we’re happy with the results of Theresa May’s negotiations.” 

He added: “I dread to think what’s going to happen otherwise. Kent will grind to a halt, because they won’t be able to get though custom inspections in Dover, so the traffic across the strait of Dover will just stop and our motorways in Kent will be blocked by lorries, our planes will be grounded and our students won’t be able to go and study across the rest of the continent.” 

Ron Ballard, vice chair of MidKent4EU also thinks there should be another vote, as people know a lot more now, and have found out that the first referendum was corrupted. 

Catherine Mayer, president and co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party is campaigning for women to have a say. She said: “Brexit is going to be a disaster for women.

It is going to hit the poorest harder – and the poorest are women.”