An online petition calling for a re-run of July’s general election has garnered over 2.8 million signatures, making it the third most popular e-petition since 2010. The petition was started by a West Midlands publican who voted Conservative at July’s general election and accuses Labour of reneging on its pre-election promises.
Overview
Background
The petition was started by a West Midlands publican who voted Conservative at July’s general election and accuses Labour of reneging on its pre-election promises.
Key Points
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The petition has become the third most popular e-petition since 2010, easily surpassing the 100,000 signatures required for a debate to take place.
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The debate will be held in Westminster Hall on 6 January and will not lead to another election.
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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch used the petition to taunt Sir Keir Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions, saying “two million people asking him to go” after Labour’s first Budget since 2010.
Related Topics
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House of Commons
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Kemi Badenoch
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Keir Starmer
Most Popular E-Petitions
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The most popular e-petition ever came in 2019, when one calling for Brexit to be cancelled received 6.1 million signatures.
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Three years earlier, a call for a second Brexit referendum garnered 4.2 million names.
Quotes from Politicians
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“There’s a petition out there, two million people asking him to go,” said Kemi Badenoch during Prime Minister’s Questions.
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“We had a massive petition on the 4th of July in this country. We spent years taking our party from a party of protest to a party of government, they are hurtling in the opposite direction,” replied Sir Keir Starmer.
Petition System History
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The current petition system replaced one run by the Cabinet Office between 2011 and 2015, which in turn replaced a Downing Street website set up under New Labour in 2006.
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Almost 1.8 million people backed a petition on the Downing Street website calling on the Blair government to “scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy”.
An online petition calling for a re-run of July’s general election has garnered over 2.8 million signatures, making it the third most popular e-petition since 2010.
The petition was started by a West Midlands publican who voted Conservative at July’s general election and accuses Labour of reneging on its pre-election promises. It has been promoted by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and tech billionaire Elon Musk.
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The petition will be debated in Westminster Hall on 6 January.
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The debate will be opened by Lib Dem MP Jamie Stone, who chairs the Petitions Committee.
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The government will send a minister to respond, but there will not be a vote at the end of the debate.
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The petition has become the third most popular e-petition since 2010, surpassing the 100,000 signatures required for a debate to take place.
