Sir Keir Starmer has ruled out an early general election after a petition calling for a second vote reached two million signatures.
The petition was launched over the weekend and says there should be another vote, just four months after Labour won a landslide, because they have “gone back on their promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election”.
By Monday mid-morning, it had reached two million signatures and was climbing fast.
But the prime minister said he would not be calling another election.
However, he said he was “not surprised” those who did not want to support Labour wanted a second vote.
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Petitions on the government website are considered for debate by MPs after 10,000 signatures. Petitions get a government response after the tally reaches 100,000.
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Over the weekend, MPs considered to be from the right of the Tories or from Reform UK, were urging people on social media to sign the petition.
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice and Conservative shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith were among those sharing the petition.
Donald Trump aide Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, reposted a link to a post which said it had got 200,000 signatures in a few hours. He wrote: “Wow.”
Musk has previously spoken out against Sir Keir Starmer, calling him “two-tier Keir” over accusations police were treating communities according to their racial background in different ways.
I suspect the people signing this are the same who argued we couldn’t have a People’s Vote on the terms of leaving the EU
I suspect most of the people signing it don’t even live in the UK and are doing it for a laugh.
Have we forgotten the 14 years of abject misery under Tory government already? People have short memories.
It is genuinely disturbing how much far right BS is being pushed onto people on social media. Happily not as much here but my tiktok is covered with the farmers protest and how the government is failing us when they’ve been in charge for less than a year and the last party has literally brought the UK to thw breaking point. Absolutely ridiculous.
gone back on their promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election
Maybe we should have another election after every election?
Maybe we should have another EU referendum, as the winning side definitely broke their promises.
Maybe we should just vote again on stuff simply because we don’t like the result.
Maybe we should wait five years and then have another general election to decide if they should stay in power or not.
Switzerland says hi.
Democracy on steroids.
Wild DEMOCRACY appeared!
Looks like someone has got a taste for electoral interference.
You can tell how Xitter has become a silo of shithousery, because this is the first time I’ve heard of this.
Musk is a weapons grade dickhead. Anyone half decent should get off his platform immediately.
