A petition calling for a general election to challenge U.K. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has surpassed 2 million signatures.
The petition calls for another General Election. “I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election,” it states.
Elon Musk voiced support for the petition. After it received 1 million signatures, the entrepreneur wrote on X, “The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state.”
When asked about the petition, Starmer said that “many people didn’t vote Labour. I’m not surprised many of them want a rerun.”
He noted, “That isn’t how our system works. There will be plenty of people who didn’t want us in in the first place,” adding, “So, what my focus is on is the decisions that I have to make every day.”
The petition’s creator, pub owner Michael Westwood, told the Daily Express, The British public feel like they have been betrayed with the promises that were told in the lead to the election and then what has been delivered since – it looks nothing like what was promised.”
“I think people have had enough, people have seen what’s happened over in America as well, and I think that’s had a knock-on effect that, actually, if people stand together and vote then we can make a change.”
At the time of writing, the petition has 2.3 million signatures.
