Strengthen and Protect Petitions to Hold Government to Account — 9 signatures. Status: rejected.
New legislation, protecting stronger petition powers constitutionally, so they gain real democratic force. We suggest petitions of 250k+ signatures should trigger mandatory scrutiny, and petitions with 1m+ signatures should lead to binding public action such as a referendum or equivalent mechanisms.
Public trust is damaged when governments can ignore huge petitions and act without meaningful accountability between elections. Once elected, no government should be free to push through policies the public overwhelmingly oppose. Strengthening petitions through legislation would provide a vital democratic safeguard. Giving 250k+ petitions mandatory scrutiny and 1m+ petitions binding outcomes ensures the public remain an active constitutional check on government power, not spectators to it.
View this petition on the official UK Parliament website