A petition calling for a general election to overthrow the recently installed left-wing Labor government has attracted nearly 550,000 supporters in less than a week.
Update 1700: The petition currently has over 1 million signatures.
The original story continues as follows.
The call for a new general election has gathered more than 750,000 signatures as of press time, and is said to be one of the fastest-growing signatures. petition In England.
The petition states that “the current Labor government has reneged on the promises made in the lead-up to the last election” and therefore calls for an election to be held.
Sir Keir Starmer's Labor Party came to power in July with a majority of 174 out of 411 seats in parliament, the party's best performance since Tony Blair's government in 1997. It won over only a little more than a third of voters.
Starmer's approval ratings have been declining since he came to power, pushing widely unpopular left-wing policies such as cutting fuel support subsidies for pensioners and expanding the death tax on family farms.
A survey released this week by Ipsos Found Only 23% of people have a favorable opinion of Mr Starmer, while 52% have a negative opinion of the Prime Minister.
Pollster John Curtis told Sky News: “Never before has a government been formed with as low a vote share as Labor had in July,'' pollster John Curtis told Sky News. Despite this, he noted that the Labor Party had a majority of 174 seats. Only 33.7 percent.
“And it's hard to find a government that has fallen as quickly in the polls as this one.”
Meanwhile, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has continued to rise in opinion polls since the election, topping all politicians in the country with a favorability rating of 28% and a disapproval rating of 48%.
Unsurprisingly, Reform UK MPs, along with Mr Farage's deputy Richard Tice, were quick to take up the petition calling for a new election. I'm saying: “Let's make this the biggest petition in British history. Sign it, share it and spread the word.”
Rupert Lowe added: “Register your frustration, anger and disgust with this Labor Government… Send Starmer a message. Sign, share and share again.”
In the UK, official petitions with more than 100,000 signatures must be considered by Parliament, and the government is obliged to respond to petitions with more than 10,000 signatures.
