MORE than 9,000 people from Warrington have signed a petition calling on the Government to cancel Brexit by revoking Article 50.

The petition, which was launched by Margaret Anne Georgiadou, has passed 3,601,050 signatures.

It includes more than 3,300 people in Warrington North and 5,790 in Warrington South.

The petition says: “The Government repeatedly claims exiting the EU is ‘the will of the people’.

“We need to put a stop to this claim by proving the strength of public support now, for remaining in the EU.”

Warrington was one of the areas that voted to exit the EU in the referendum in 2016 – with Leave winning 62,487 votes in the town, which amounted to 54.3 per cent of the vote.

Parliament will consider the petition for debate as it has passed the 100,000 threshold.

But campaign group Warrington 4 Brexit has raised serious question marks over its validity.

“It’s an online petition for which it is easy to create multiple e-mail addresses and sign fraudulently for other people,” said a spokeswoman.

“No proof of citizenship or address is required.

“Thousands of the names on it are actually from outside the UK and some Remain voters have even shared their own postcodes on Twitter in a bid to encourage people from around the world to add their names.

“People have signed in Russia, Saudi Arabia, Papua New Guinea and North Korea!”

Warrington 4 Brexit members say the 2016 referendum result must be implemented.

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It also believes the People’s Vote ‘mask has now slipped’, claiming it has become clear that its supporters’ aim all along was to ‘sabotage and overturn’ the referendum result.

The spokeswoman added: “The vote to Leave in that referendum of 17,410,742 was the single highest vote for anything in the UK’s political history – beating even the ‘Yes’ vote of 1975 when the electorate was asked if it wished to stay in the ‘common market’ (European Economic Community).

“The 2016 referendum result was reinforced further at the 2017 General Election, which gave a clear mandate to Parliament for Leave: more than 85 per cent of votes cast were for a manifesto committing to respect the 2016 referendum result to leave the EU.”