LONDON — Britain’s exit from the European Union, which entered uncharted territory weeks ago, is still straining the government in unexpected ways, even setting a record. As Prime Minister Theresa May limped home from Brussels on Thursday with an agreement that seemed to raise the odds of a chaotic no-deal Brexit, ordinary Britons were scrambling to add their names to a largely futile petition to cancel the whole deal — crashing a parliamentary website. By Friday, the petition, called “Revoke Article 50 and remain in the EU,” had more than three million signatures, and the numbers continued to grow. But on Thursday, the Petitions Committee in Parliament apologized profusely and repeatedly after the website went down under the strain of the response to the popular initiative.

Source: New York Times March 22, 2019 12:39 UTC