Give the people the power to call a general election.
HMG should enact a law by which 50% of the electorate in two thirds of constituencies can trigger a general election by petition or letter/email to their MP.
Signatures
10
signatures
Government response threshold (10,000) · 10/10,000
Debate threshold (100,000) · 10/100,000
- 11 DEC 2025Petition rejectedduplicate
You may wish to sign these petitions, which call for similar action: "Give the British Public the Right to Vote No Confidence in the Government" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/734311 "Pass a law that triggers an early General Election via a public petition" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/739383
- 12 NOV 2025Petition created
Background
It is anathema in a modern democracy that a Prime Minister and government, which may quickly prove to be disastrous for the prosperity and wellbeing of the country cannot be brought to a General Election by the initiative of the people at law, instead having to be suffered by the people for a full five years. That is not democratic. The people must have the power, with enough numbers, to trigger a change of government sooner, should they see fit. General elections used to be annual.