One million Brits demand new elections
Parliament will be forced to debate the matter after a petition called for a re-do of July’s vote | More than a million people have signed an online petition calling for a new general election in the UK, just months after Prime Minister Keir Starmer came to power in an historic landslide for the Labour Party. ■ Filed on Wednesday, the petition accuses Starmer and Labour of going “back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election,” and calls on Parliament to debate a re-do of the vote. As of Sunday afternoon, it has attracted more than a million signatures, with around 2,000 new signatures added per minute.