A Labour MP has accused external forces and political opponents of manipulating a petition calling for a fresh general election, which has gathered over three million signatures.
A Labour MP today blamed 'foreign interference' for a petition demanding a fresh general election gaining more than three million signatures. Yasmin Qureshi said that the appeal had also been 'hijacked' by the party's opponents, as it was debated by MPs. The petition, which accuses Labour of having 'gone back on the promises' the party made before July's election, was set up by Michael Westwood, a Tory voter who owns three pubs in the Black Country.
He was in the Westminster Hall audience for the debate this afternoon, along with Piers Corbyn, the brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Ms Qureshi, the MP for Bolton South and Walkden, told MPs petitions were usually used ‘for particular issues of concern to people in the country’. But there was uproar when she went on: 'It is not normally used as a mechanism to hijack and play party politics. 'In the last 14 years we saw crisis after crisis caused by the ill-formed policies and plans and the rank cronyism of the previous government. Unlike them we engaged in the process, we had debate, we did not commandeer a public petition to demand a new election. 'This petition has grown, some of it to do with a lot of misinformation, some of it to do with foreign interference … you may laugh at it but that happens to be correct as well.
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