53 minutes ago UK politics live: Badenoch refuses to commit to reversing rise in employers’ national insurance in speech at CBI

Tory leader says she will not ‘comment on every bit of micro-policy’Q: Are you feeling the pressure? There is a petition signed by 2 million people calling for another election.Starmer says he is not surprised that people who did not support Labour in the first place want the election to be re-run. But that is not how the system worked.I’m not surprised, quite frankly, that as we’re doing the tough stuff, there are plenty of people who say, ‘Well, I’m impacted.’I think anybody who’s turned around an organisation or a business will tell you, and they’re right, if you’re really going to turn something around, you have to do the hard yards upfront. Don’t look at a tough decision and then leave it for a year or two.So we’re doing the tough stuff. But in the budget, which is probably the tou...

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64 minutes ago Petition calling for fresh general election has 'no chance' of influencing timing of next vote even if it was signed by tens of millions of people, British constitutional experts say

EXCLUSIVE: The 'Call a General Election' petition on the Parliament website was posted by pub owner Michael Westwood and complains that Sir Keir has 'gone back on promises'.

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85 minutes ago Carol Vorderman condemns petition calling for fresh general election as it's signed by more than 2m people

The petition on the Parliament website has passed more than two million signatures after racking up an extra 100,000 every hour.

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2 hours ago UK politics live: Starmer dismisses online petition calling for new election

PM says it has been driven by people who never backed Labour anywayQ: Are you feeling the pressure? There is a petition signed by 2 million people calling for another election.Starmer says he is not surprised that people who did not support Labour in the first place want the election to be re-run. But that is not how the system worked.I’m not surprised, quite frankly, that as we’re doing the tough stuff, there are plenty of people who say, ‘Well, I’m impacted.’I think anybody who’s turned around an organisation or a business will tell you, and they’re right, if you’re really going to turn something around, you have to do the hard yards upfront. Don’t look at a tough decision and then leave it for a year or two.So we’re doing the tough stuff. But in the budget, which is probably the toug...

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18 hours ago Meet the man behind the petition demanding a general election: More than one million Britons have called for change amid fury at Labour's Budget tax raid

Michael Westwood, who is the owner of Britain's 'cheapest pub', said he didn't imagine in his 'wildest dreams' that his campaign, which has been reposted by Elon Musk, would get such traction.

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38 hours ago More than 200,000 people sign petition demanding another General Election is called after Labour 'U

The online petition has surpassed 200,000 signatures, at the time of publication, after being widely shared on social media since being created on Wednesday.

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