Hollywood legend Sir Michael Caine is backing calls for a new general election as a petition now has more than 2.2 million votes which is accusing Labour broken promises.
Micheal Westwood who is a small business owner created the petition and he accused the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of having “gone back on his promises.”
Labour has come under fire over a raft of measures the Chancellor introduced in her Autumn Budget, such as axing pensioners Winter Fuel Payment, raising employers’ national insurance contributions in the £40 billion tax hike.
Any petition which surpasses 100,000 votes has to be considered for parliamentary debate.
The petition reads, “I would like there to be another General Election. I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election.”
Sir Michale Caine who is backing the calls for a new general election posted on X, “Call a General Election – Petitions.”
The Prime Minister gave a car crash interview on ITV’s This Morning on Monday, he was asked if this is what he expected after just five months in Downing Street.
The Prime Minister said, “Look, I remind myself that very many people didn’t vote Labour at the last election.
“I’m not surprised that many of them want a rerun. That isn’t how our system works.
“There will be plenty of people who didn’t want us in in the first place.
“So, what my focus is on is the decisions that I have to make every day.”
Westwood who started the petition told the Express, “The British public feel like they have been betrayed with the promises that were told in the lead to the election and then what has been delivered since – it looks nothing like what was promised.
“I think people have had enough, people have seen what’s happened over in America as well, and I think that’s had a knock-on effect that, actually, if people stand together and vote then we can make a change.”
He added, “Not in my wildest dreams did I think this was going to take off like it has.”
