Yes. As of July 2026, the UK Government has confirmed that a mileage-based tax for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids will begin in April 2028. The scheme is officially called Electric Vehicle Excise Duty (eVED).  The confirmed headline details are: Vehicle type From April 2028 Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) | 3p per mile Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) | 1.5p per mile Standard (non-plug-in) hybrids | No change, existing VED rules apply The mileage charge is in addition to the existing annual Vehicle Excise Duty (road tax) introduced for EVs from April 2025. It is not a replacement.  Other confirmed points include: •  Drivers will normally self-report their annual mileage.  •  Mileage will be checked against MOT records once the vehicle reaches three years old.  •  The Government has dropped its earlier proposal for mandatory annual mileage inspections on vehicles under three years old.  Example annual costs Annual mileageEV (3p/mile)PHEV (1.5p/mile)   5,000 | £150 | £75 10,000 | £300 | £150 15,000 | £450 | £225 20,000 | £600 | £300 This means an owner of a typical electric car registered after April 2025 could, for example, pay: •  Annual VED: £200 •  Plus 10,000 miles of eVED: £300 • Total: £500 per year Luxury EVs that attract the Expensive Car Supplement would continue to pay that where applicable, on top of the above, during the relevant years. 

No barrister in British legal history has ever faced contempt proceedings over the content of a closing speech. Rajiv Menon now faces up to two years in prison for words that barristers have recited in court for centuries. His case has become a test of a far larger principle: do jurors have a right to acquit according to their conscience, even where a judge's directions point toward conviction? Barristers can now be forbidden by judges from mentioning this principle — sometimes called jury equity — even though the independence of juries has been recognised in law since the 1670 case of R v Penn & Mead, and is honoured on a plaque at the Old Bailey itself. In January 2026, when Rajiv Menon KC referred to this history while defending Charlotte Head, one of the Palestine Action defendants charged over the 2024 Filton factory protest. Head was later acquitted, and the trial judge accused Menon of contempt of court — despite later accepting there was nothing improper in citing the 1670 case. Menon now faces a two-day contempt trial on 28 July. If the independence of juries can no longer be spoken of in court without risking prison, every defendant's ability to receive a fearless defence is put at risk. David Lammy and Richard Hermer: do you want to be remembered on another plaque in the Old Bailey as those that destroyed Britain’s juries? 

The current legal framework governing Atlantic Bluefin Tuna in Scottish waters represents an unfathomable system of corporate privilege and systemic greed. While large-scale commercial vessels are granted lucrative state-backed privileges to extract tons of tuna from our shared seas for massive corporate profit, it remains strictly illegal for a reasonable citizen to catch just one fish. To make matters worse, despite the UK's massive national allocation, the centralized system has left Scotland with zero commercial tuna allocations, starving our coastal communities of their natural heritage. This is a moral, economic, and regulatory failure. We demand a legal framework allowing any citizen or freeman of Scotland to purchase an annual £30 licence, valid for the duration of the tuna season, granting the right to catch, tag, and retain exactly one Atlantic Bluefin Tuna per year for personal consumption or local sale. Our proposed system is a superior, safer, and more conservative approach based on these unyielding grounds: • True Conservation vs. Commercial Greed: Granting a vessel a strict, non-transferable licence for just one fish per year is fundamentally far more conservative and ecologically responsible than allocating massive, multi-tonne quotas to industrial fishing vessels. • A 5% Commercial Reduction: Reallocating just a tiny 6-tonne fraction out of the UK’s 120-tonne commercial pool would easily provide enough quota to comfortably sustain the "one-fish" citizen licence program across Scotland. • Accessibility and Shared Recreation: Attaching the licence directly to a registered boat ensures maximum accessibility. It allows families, friends, or local angling groups to share a single vessel and participate in the harvest safely together without forcing every single person on board to bear separate costs. • Anti-Rigging Protections: To prevent exploitation, the framework will include a strict "one person, one boat" registration rule per season. Individuals will be legally barred from purchasing licences for multiple vessels or using loophole fleets to stack quotas. Once the boat lands its single, rightful entitlement, its tuna tag expires for the year. • Funding Marine Preservation: Implementing a reasonable £30 fee for the annual boat licence creates a direct, self-funding revenue stream for the Scottish Government. This money can be directly ring-fenced to fund marine conservation, anti-poaching patrols, and scientific research. • Community Wealth: Allowing a citizen to either consume or sell their single catch directly benefits local families and coastal economies, shifting wealth from massive commercial entities back to regular Scottish citizens. Sign this petition to demand an end to corporate maritime monopoly and fight for fairness in our seas! It's happening all around Scotland and all the isles. I read a sign once when visiting the coast, and it has always bothered me: the amount of government oversight and greed that steps on personal, individual freedoms for perfectly natural, recreational, and innocent activities. These activities are being ruined by laws that once never used to exist. There was once true natural liberties available to all free men—to be free to pursue within a reasonable amount, to go make such a catch, and to pursue their fishing and angling dreams and responsibilities. The fact that this is illegal without a privileged position and a wealthy background, such as a rich corporation, is absolutely feudal, disgusting, and bonkers. It is also extremely unproportional in regards to conservation when you look at the data on who gets access—like the common man isn't good enough for it. It's very grievous! It's insulting to our Natural Heritage.

Falmouth needs this car park, and for it to sit almost empty and unused during peak shopping hours is a disgrace. The removal of this bollard will also facilitate easier access for the elderly, disabled and young mums who currently have to struggle through the streets laden with shopping bags or pushing buggies. The small car parks, such as The Moor and Well Lane are restricted on spaces, and the larger long stay car parks such as Grove Place and Town Quarry which are situated at either end of the town, are not that accessible if you have baggage or mobility problems. Local Businesses want it removed, and so do locals. Please help keep the High Streets of Falmouth alive, and support local traders.

Sign to support us in our call for:  • Secondary sewage treatment and UV disinfection on all inhabited islands;  • Effective regulation and accurate monitoring;  • Preservation of our highly protected marine environment;  • Well-maintained water infrastructure and equipment. In 2026 there are no excuses for sewage pollution. The Isles of Scilly rest 28 miles off the coast of Cornwall in a gorgeous tapestry of blue-green water. This spectacular marine environment is teeming with life and is home to Grey Seals, Crawfish and Pink Sea Fans, all of which are protected in an archipelago-wide Special Area of Conservation along with reefs and intertidal sandbanks. Other residents and regular or rare visitors are ‘priority species’ and include:  • Sea Fan Anemones • Sunset Cup Corals • Porbeagle Sharks • Blue Sharks • Basking Sharks  • Humpback Whales • Fin Whales • Minke Whales • Cuvier’s Beaked Whales • Orca • Risso’s Dolphins  • Common Dolphins  • Bottlenose Dolphins  • Harbour Porpoise And too many more to mention! These species and their habitats - along with magnificent seabirds, wildlife, and flora and fauna on land - are why Scilly is one of the most protected environments in the UK.  Despite this, South West Water are proposing to construct a fine-screening plant and long sea outfall to ‘improve’ St Mary’s’ already failing sewage system. If successful, this 470m pipe would routinely discharge screened but untreated sewage into highly protected, designated habitats within a fragile ecosystem. St Mary’s has a population equivalent of over 2,000, making it unlawful to routinely discharge untreated sewage here. SWW have stated the necessity for secondary treatment to protect our Special Area of Conservation in their own publications, and the Environment Agency acknowledge it too. Despite this, South West Water are progressing their plans at pace, and the Environment Agency said they will consider a ‘robust’ argument for screening only. In 2026 there are no excuses for sewage pollution. We know better, and have the technology to be innovative and sustainable whilst we do better. Other UK islands like South Uist and Tobermory have secondary treatment for similar population equivalents, and it would never be acceptable on the UK mainland. People are aware of the sewage crisis and are no longer prepared to let sewage pollution harm our environment and our families. The Isles of Scilly is one of the UK's most protected marine environments. A place with this level of environmental importance should become a showcase for the highest standards of wastewater treatment—not an exception where lower standards are accepted. Sign, share, and shout it out loud!

Animals are not commodities. They are sentient beings capable of feeling fear, pain, joy, love and the desire to live. Yet every day, billions of land animals and trillions of aquatic animals are bred, confined, exploited and killed for food, clothing, entertainment, research and profit. This is not simply about one industry. It is about a system that has normalised suffering on an unimaginable scale. Across the UK and around the world: • Broiler chickens are bred to grow so rapidly that many struggle to walk, while hens, pigs and calves are kept in barren, overcrowded systems that prevent natural behaviours such as nesting, foraging and socialising. • Dairy calves are separated from their mothers so milk can be sold for human consumption, while male chicks in the egg industry are routinely culled because they cannot lay eggs. • Trillions of fish and other marine animals are caught or farmed each year, often dying from suffocation, crushing, decompression or prolonged stress. Countless dolphins, turtles and seabirds also die as bycatch. • Racehorses are commonly confined for long periods, raced before they are fully mature and face the risk of catastrophic injuries and premature death. • Greyhounds are bred for speed and discarded when they are no longer profitable. • Wildlife continues to be hunted, trapped and killed for recreation, trophies and commercial gain. • Animals are used in circuses, rodeos, tourist attractions and other forms of entertainment where profit often outweighs welfare. • Millions of animals are still used in laboratories despite the continued development of humane alternatives. • Animals are transported over long distances in stressful conditions before slaughter. • Countless animals suffer simply because society has accepted practices that would never be tolerated if they involved our companion animals. Modern science has confirmed what many of us already know in our hearts: animals are sentient. They experience pain, fear, stress, comfort, companionship and the desire to avoid suffering. Yet our laws and industries often fail to reflect this understanding. I’ve loved animals for as long as I can remember. But I wasn’t always vegan. Like millions of people, I grew up eating meat, dairy and eggs without ever questioning where they came from. I genuinely enjoyed those foods and never imagined that my everyday choices were connected to so much suffering. I wasn’t a bad person—I simply didn’t know. Everything changed when I began learning about factory farming, slaughterhouses, industrial fishing and the use of animals for entertainment. Once I saw the reality, I couldn’t unsee it. For me, becoming vegan wasn’t about being perfect or believing I was better than anyone else. It was simply a decision to stop contributing to unnecessary suffering wherever I reasonably could. I understand why these conversations can feel uncomfortable. Many people assume vegans are judging them. That is not why I’m here. This petition isn’t about blaming or shaming anyone. It’s about encouraging compassion, honesty and informed choices. Most of us care deeply about animals. We stroke dogs, rescue wildlife and teach our children to be kind. Yet many forms of animal suffering remain hidden behind closed doors or accepted simply because they are traditional. Animals cannot organise protests. They cannot write to politicians. They cannot ask us to protect them. They have no voice. So we must choose to be that voice. History has shown that societies evolve. Practices once considered normal have been challenged because compassion eventually became more important than convenience or profit. I believe we are capable of taking that next step for animals. Not through anger. Not through hatred. But through empathy, education and kindness. Every animal values its own life. No animal chooses to be bred into confinement. No animal chooses to be raced, hunted or discarded. No animal chooses to suffer for fashion, entertainment or unnecessary consumption. If you believe kindness should extend beyond our own species, please sign this petition and help create a future where compassion is stronger than cruelty. Together, we can be the voice that animals have never had. I’ve loved animals since I was a child. I wasn’t always vegan—I simply didn’t know what animals endured. When I discovered the reality of factory farming, fishing and animal exploitation, I made the decision to stop contributing to it. I don’t believe I’m better than anyone else; I just believe animals deserve compassion. They have no voice, so I’m trying to use mine.

We are a collective of people from all backgrounds coming together to oppose Microsoft’s planned development for 3 Hyperscale AI Data Centres at Skelton Grange.  This proposed megasite, which has already been given conditional planning approval, would consist of giant warehouses full of tens of thousands of AI computer chips running constantly to power Microsoft’s AI systems.  There is overwhelming evidence that this site would pose a risk to the health and wellbeing of local residents, and the surrounding environment. Cooling the chips would require thousands of litres of water to be sucked out of the River Aire every time outside temperatures rise above 29 degrees – which will happen increasingly often as the climate crisis accelerates. The site would use truly vast amounts of energy to power, making it by far the single biggest carbon emitter in Leeds. Over its planned 60 year lifetime it is projected to release more than 200,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. This is almost the equivalent of one year of the UK’s entire emissions. Stopping this project is one of the most significant steps we could take to protect both our local environment and stop a truly staggering source of carbon emissions. The Leeds Planning Committee has already signed off on this megaproject, leaving the final decision in the hands of Chief Planning Officer Martin Elliot. There is still time to stop this final sign off, and following that to initiate a legal challenge. It is clear that the public were not properly informed about this project or given the opportunity to object, and that there was insufficient scrutiny of the project’s impacts. These impacts include: – water and power consumption – noise, light and air pollution – water and power consumption – disposal of foulwater and waste heat  – surveillance and security changes We invite all people who care about this city and our planet to join the campaign team. Please help us by adding your name to this petition. 

The turning into Lincoln Avenue has become dangerously obstructed by routinely parked, large and commercial vehicles. Their presence creates a serious blind spot on entering the cul de sac by car, risking accidents and injury.  The problem is particularly acute turning left from Hampden way onto Lincoln Avenue. For pedestrians the vehicles hide the pavement from view, making it unsafe.  Frequently remnants of alcohol and substance use litter the pavement, which is also a haven for fly tipping.  This has been a concerning issue for at least the last 10 years. Though it’s been exacerbated by the same returning vehicles that park for long periods. The simple addition of double yellow lines will end this opportunism and create a safer neighbourhood for everyone.  Let’s get it done now before someone gets hurt.

The current DWP complaints system lacks transparency, has poor tracking. Claimants often have no formal record when a complaint is made, making it difficult to get a fair resolution. Not only is MPs' time taken up with complaint administration to the DWP, the DWP must spent time updating claimants as to the progress of a complaint. Accessible complaints will address serious concerns from coroners, safeguarding bodies, human rights, and disability organisations - who protect rights and lives.

Our vision is for a National Care Service with free home care at its heart, placing social care on an equal footing with the NHS. We believe that home care should not be viewed simply as a private act of love performed by families, but as a collective responsibility that we all share. Just as Aneurin Bevan drew inspiration for the NHS from a successful local model in his hometown of Tredegar — the Tredegar Medical Aid Society — we similarly look to the innovative free home care model established in Hammersmith & Fulham in 1991 by the late Iain Coleman MP, alongside Dame Sally Powell and Stephen Burke, as a guiding example for our vision of social care. The outcomes in Hammersmith & Fulham speak for themselves: The latest figures show that 7.5 people per 1,000 receive home care — the highest rate of any London borough. ASCOF data indicates that the borough had the 4th lowest number of residents in care homes of all local authorities in 2024–2025. Discharge outcomes are particularly strong, with the borough consistently ranking highly for the number of individuals staying at home 91 days post-discharge — it ranked 5th nationally in 2023–24. Notably, home care is significantly more affordable than hospital beds or residential care options. In 2026–2027, only 16% of the borough’s £123 million adult social care budget was allocated to free home care, in stark contrast to the 33% spent on residential care, despite the relatively low number of people living in care homes. Baroness Casey made the powerful observation that social care, unlike the NHS or the benefits system, has never had its own “creation moment” — no founding settlement, no defining national mission, and no equivalent of 1948.  At the same time, many people across the country are frustrated by the pace and scale of national change and are seeking bold yet pragmatic ideas to transform everyday life.  We believe that establishing a National Care Service with free home care at the point of need at its heart could create a modern Bevan-style legacy, delivering the transformational change in social care that people are seeking.

Nigel Farage is claiming this as a move for the people against the establishment. The people who sign this give an overwhelming mandate that they do not approve of any by-election until all the facts are known and people can make a clear decision.   If his resignation is blocked, it will be because of the will of the people signing this petition and can not be spun as an ‘establishment’ tactic. 

I am a professional chauffeur covering up to 1500 miles weekly. Time and again I see drivers of trucks and cars ignoring red cross lanes on motorways. I am outraged that so many road workers are killed or injured whilst supposedly being protected by traffic signs which are being ignored. I NEVER see them stopped by police. They seem to know when cameras are not there. It is a daily occurrence for me to see this. How many more lives are to be lost.