Sir Keir Starmer has dismissed a jibe by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over an online petition calling for another general election, as the pair clashed over Labour’s tax rises.Badenoch said the petition on Parliament’s website showed “two million people asking him to go” after Labour’s first Budget since 2010.She added that the prime minister should resign “if he wants to know what Conservatives would do” instead.Sir Keir shrugged off her attack, saying there had already been a “massive petition” in the summer, when voters returned Labour to power.The petition, started by a West Midlands publican who voted Conservative at July’s general election, has now gathered over 2.7m signatures.It calls for another general election to take place, accusing the government of having “gone back on the promises” it made during the campaign.The petition will not lead to another general election but it will be debated by MPs, having has passed the threshold of 100,000 signatures that guarantees a debate.It also offered Badenoch a way to attack the government, as she faced off with Sir Keir at Prime Minister’s Questions for only the third time since becoming Tory leader earlier this month.She added that rises to employers’ National Insurance (NI) at last month’s Budget had prompted calls from business that they would have to cut jobs.The tax increase was not in Labour’s election manifesto, but ministers claim it is needed to fill a “black hole” in the public finances left by the previous government, and raise money for public services.”There’s a petition out the …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnSir Keir Starmer has dismissed a jibe by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch over an online petition calling for another general election, as the pair clashed over Labour’s tax rises.Badenoch said the petition on Parliament’s website showed “two million people asking him to go” after Labour’s first Budget since 2010.She added that the prime minister should resign “if he wants to know what Conservatives would do” instead.Sir Keir shrugged off her attack, saying there had already been a “massive petition” in the summer, when voters returned Labour to power.The petition, started by a West Midlands publican who voted Conservative at July’s general election, has now gathered over 2.7m signatures.It calls for another general election to take place, accusing the government of having “gone back on the promises” it made during the campaign.The petition will not lead to another general election but it will be debated by MPs, having has passed the threshold of 100,000 signatures that guarantees a debate.It also offered Badenoch a way to attack the government, as she faced off with Sir Keir at Prime Minister’s Questions for only the third time since becoming Tory leader earlier this month.She added that rises to employers’ National Insurance (NI) at last month’s Budget had prompted calls from business that they would have to cut jobs.The tax increase was not in Labour’s election manifesto, but ministers claim it is needed to fill a “black hole” in the public finances left by the previous government, and raise money for public services.”There’s a petition out the …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
