MPs will debate an online petition calling for a re-run of July’s general election, after it garnered over 2.8 million signatures.
A debate has been scheduled in Westminster Hall, a secondary debating chamber where such petitions are discussed, on 6 January.
It has become the third most popular e-petition since 2010, easily surpassing the 100,000 signatures required for a debate to take place.
It will not lead to another election – but was used by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch to taunt Sir Keir Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions.
Badenoch said it showed « two million people asking him to go » after Labour’s first Budget since 2010, as the pair clashed over the government’s tax rises.
