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The petition comes amid growing backlash over Labour’s budget, which has sparked controversy for hikes to national insurance and extension of inheritance tax to include farms, among other ...
Petitions backed by 100,000 signatures would now be considered for debate in Parliament and the website was moved to Directgov. [6] In the following year, a total of 36,000 petitions were submitted, attracting 6.4 million signatures. [7] After the closure of the Directgov website, the e-petitions were moved to the new GOV.UK website in October ...
In fact, in July 2024, the month of the general election, there were about 6.4 million people on the NHS England waiting list, according to non-emergency referral-to-treatment (RTT) data, in a ...
Michael Westwood launched the petition after googling ‘how to change the prime minister’ Pub landlord reveals why he started petition for another general election signed 2.5million times Skip ...
This culminated in a petition calling for an early general election on the UK Parliament website being started in November 2024 which reached over 2 million signatures within 2 days. Starmer responded to the petition by saying "I'm not surprised, quite frankly, that as we're doing the tough stuff there are plenty of people who say 'well I'm ...
British Parliamentary Election Results 1885–1918. Macmillan. ISBN 9781349022984. Day — Day, Samuel H. (1894). Election cases in 1892 and 1893: being a collection of the points of law and practice arising out of the parliamentary election petitions in those years, together with reports of the judgments. London: Stevens and Sons.
A petition is successful if at least 10 per cent of the constituency's electorate sign the petition. Successful petitions result in the MP vacating the seat, triggering a by-election. As of March 2024, six petitions have been held under the Act, four resulting in by-elections and one being terminated early due to the MP's resignation.
More than 2.5 million people have signed Michael Westwood's petition for another general election.