Petition calling for Brexit reversal crashes UK parliament website

A petition calling for the UK to revoke Article 50, reversing a policy to leave the European Union, has crashed the UK parliament’s petitions website after more than half a million people rushed to sign.
House of Commons officials blamed the disruption on a ‘large and sustained load on the system’ as people flocked to register their opposition, with the site now offline while technicians carry out ‘maintenance’.
Attempts to access the petition at the time of writing