Important:

This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament

Rejected petition Reverse the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 and call for a general election.

Those who have signed this petition have done so in order to show they would have no faith in a new Prime Minister chosen by only Tory party members. We call for a general election to allow the remaining British people to democratically choose their next leader.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/133548

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.