Daily Express use new e-petition website for European Union campaign
The Daily Express has jumped on the new e-petition website launched by DirectGov to introduce a campaign aiming to get Britain to leave the EU.
The campaign, which featured in the newspaper over the weekend, is asking for people to sign the petition which is asking for a referendum on Britain leaving the European Union.
The newspaper said: “The Government has said it would consider any public campaign backed by 100,000 signatures for a debate in Parliament.
“Joining our petition will force the country’s politicians openly to discuss an issue that is gathering momentum as Britain bails out failing eurozone states and our laws are increasingly adversely affected by EU human rights restraints.
“This newspaper’s historic crusade – the first to demand that Britain must quit the EU – has already been backed by almost 400,000 people in a postal coupon campaign earlier this year.”
When the e-petition website was launched on Friday, it was said that any petition which received over 100,000 signatures would be considered for debate in Parliament.