MORE than 1,000 people in West Worcestershire have signed an online petition calling for a general election, figures show.

The safe-tory seat has an electorate of around 90,000, with a total of 1,042 people in the area signing the petition, which has reached more than 600,000 signatures.

Incumbent MP Harriett Baldwin has one of the largest majorities in the country, being re-elected in 2019 with 34,909 votes.

The petition emerged after the chaos of the government's mini budget, which saw Prime Minister Liz Truss sack Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng.

This week saw his replacement, Jeremy Hunt, reverse almost all the tax cuts laid out in the mini budget.

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The petition asks for "an immediate general election to end the chaos of the current government".

It lists the war in Ukraine, problems with the Northern Ireland protocol, looming recession and renewed calls for Scottish independence as among "the greatest set of challenges we have seen in our lifetimes".

"Let the people decide who leads us through this turmoil," the petition concludes.

The three largest opposition parties in Westminster – Labour, the Scottish National Party, and the Liberal Democrats – all called for a general election last week, in response to the economic problems brought on by the Government's September mini-budget.

Sir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the Prime Minister had "trashed the British economy" and "humiliated the Conservative Government in the eyes of the world".

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“People are angry, they are fed up, and they’re worried about the future, but above all, they are furious with this Conservative Party, so I think it’s time they had their say – it’s time for a general election,” he told BBC News on Friday.

Across the West Midlands, 45,132 people had signed the petition by Monday afternoon.

Any petition with more than 100,000 signatures must be debated in Parliament – a threshold met by the petition at the end of September, meaning it is due to be discussed at 4.30pm on Monday, October 17.

At 632,188 signatures and counting, it is currently the most signed open petition on the Parliament website.