London, Aug 29 (TIWN) More than a million people have signed a petition against UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to suspend the country's Parliament in the second week of September, just weeks before the Brexit deadline on October 31.

The petition says: "Parliament must not be prorogued or dissolved unless and until the Article 50 period has been sufficiently extended or the UK's intention to withdraw from the EU has been cancelled."

It came as thousands of people marched outside Westminster on Wednesday evening, just hours after Johnson announced he would suspend Parliament from mid-September, a week after MPs reconvene on September 3 following the summer recess, until October 14, when there would be a Queen's Speech.