Trigger automatic General Election when Prime Minister steps down or is removed

Trigger automatic General Election when Prime Minister steps down or is removed — 9 signatures. Status: rejected.

Petition background

We call on the Government to amend the law so that if a sitting Prime Minister is forced to resign or steps down mid-term, a General Election must be automatically triggered within 60 days

Additional details

When a Prime Minister resigns, the governing party replaces them without a public vote. This is undemocratic. New leaders often introduce major policy shifts the public never agreed to. Furthermore, if a PM fails and is forced out, it reflects a wider failure of the governing party’s leadership and the party as a whole. The public elects a government based on its leader and manifesto. If that leader leaves, the British public must have the right to decide who leads the country.

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