Starmer rules out election despite petition pressure

A petition calling for another general election accrued more than 2.5million signatures in under a week, but the Prime Minister says he will not call another vote. 

The petition argues that Brits should head back to the ballot box, only four months after Labour won a landslide, because they have “gone back on their promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election”. Even Elon Musk has been drawn into the debate, commenting on X in reference to the petition: “The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state.” 

Professional deerstalker Chris Dalton told ST: “I have been watching with interest the online petition currently circulating calling for an early election and am heartened by the strength of feeling across a broad church of the public, I fully expected a Labour government to be no friend of the countryside nor its inhabitants, but even I am shocked by their attack on the farming community. 

“While there will be no early election, a petition fast approaching three million signatures will surely make Starmer and his cronies sit up and take note.”