MPs set date to debate immediate General Election after one million Britons sign snap poll petition
A petition demanding an immediate General Election will be debated by MPs on January 12, the Petitions Committee has confirmed.
Tory MP John Lamont will open the debate and Sir Keir Starmer is expected to send a minister to respond.
More than one million people signed the petition, including almost 3,000 voters in Nigel Farage’s constituency of Clacton.
North West Essex, which is held by Kemi Badenoch, sent more than 2,400 signatures.
Meanwhile, just 611 constituents signed the petition in Sir Keir’s seat of Holborn & St Pancras.
There had been concerns the petition would not return to Westminster Hall to be debated by MPs after a similar petition reached the floor last January.
The first petition, which received more than three million signatures, was set up by publican Michael Westwood.
Signatories were forced to wait 120 days for confirmation that the second petition would be debated by MPs.
Westminster Hall hosted the first 150-minute debate on January 6, with Mr Farage locking horns with Labour MP Dawn Butler over Sir Keir’s claims about inheriting a £22billion blackhole from the previous Tory Government.
Speaking at the time, the Prime Minister admitted he was “not that surprised” that some people who did not vote Labour in the 2024 General Election wanted a “re-run” of the poll.
Despite MPs being given the opportunity to debate the petition, it is incredibly unlikely that Britons will go to the polls anytime soon.
Under the now-repealed Fixed Term Parliaments Act, the Prime Minister needed to pass a vote to hold a national poll.
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