Starmer hits back at Badenoch’s suggestion he resigns in light of general election petition

The Independent

Kemi Badenoch has challenged Sir Keir Starmer to resign, pointing to a petition signed by 2 million people calling for a general election in the UK. Source: Parliament TV

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00:00Mr. Speaker, if he wants to know what Conservatives would do, he should resign and find out.

00:05Until then...

00:10I'll decide when there's more.

00:15Mr. Speaker, until then, I'm the one asking the questions.

00:20There's a petition out there, 2 million people asking him to go.

00:25He's the one who doesn't know, he's the one who doesn't know how things work.

00:32It is not government that creates growth, Mr. Speaker, it is business.

00:36His employment secretary, I don't see her here, she wants more young people in work.

00:40But businesses say they are cutting jobs because of the Chancellor's budget.

00:44And she talks about a petition, we had a massive petition on the 4th of July in this country.

00:52We spent years taking our party from a party of protest to a party of government.

00:57They're hurtling in the opposite direction.

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