A petition demanding a general election has received more than one million signatures from British voters. The petition, shared on the official parliament website, calls for an “immediate” election to be held.
The petition, which recently closed, garnered 1,059,231 signatures. The government issued a response to the matter in August, stating that current leaders were “elected by the British people on a mandate of change at the July 2024 general election.”
“We inherited unprecedented challenges, with crumbling public services and crippled public finances, but will deliver a decade of national renewal through our five missions: economic growth, fixing the NHS, safer streets, making Britain a clean energy super-power and opportunity for all,” the statement claimed. “This is what was promised and is what we are delivering.”
British citizens have also pushed back against the current government by launching a separate petition in protest of digital ID. Before closing, the petition gathered 2,984,192 signatures.
In an October statement on the petition, the UK government asserted that it is “committed to making people’s everyday lives easier and more secure, to putting more control in their hands (including over their own data), and to driving growth through harnessing digital technology.”
Prime Minister Keir Starmer argued that digital IDs will combat illegal immigration and workers. “Digital ID is an enormous opportunity for the UK. It will make it tougher to work illegally in this country, making our borders more secure,” he said in September. “And it will also offer ordinary citizens countless benefits, like being able to prove your identity to access key services swiftly – rather than hunting around for an old utility bill.”
