A PETITION calling for Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak to resign from their posts has been signed by well over 300,000 people.
The Prime Minister and Chancellor continue to come under pressure to quit after they were both fined by police for attending a birthday party thrown for Johnson in No 10 when the UK was under strict lockdown restrictions.
Johnson is the first Prime Minister ever to have been sanctioned for breaking the law and many opposition MPs have insisted his position is untenable.
Now a change.org petition launched by Matthew Tovey telling them to go has pulled in more than 311,000 signatures in just over 24 hours, with that number continuing to climb rapidly.
Tovey - who was working 12-hour shifts for the NHS during the pandemic - has said he wants to hit 500,000 signatures so "to make sure they can't ignore us".
The petition states: "I do not believe that anyone who breaks the law should be allowed to remain Prime Minister or Chancellor.
"At the same time No. 10 were partying in the Downing Street gardens, I was working 12-hour shifts in the NHS in full PPE in the corridors of hospitals that had started to resemble battlefields.
"In May 2020, my colleagues and I were struggling to save lives. There were too many patients and nowhere near enough staff. Boris Johnson has said that Downing Street was full of “people working phenomenally hard under phenomenal strain”.
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"I do not believe that in 2020 their jobs were more stressful than our jobs, on the front lines. I do not understand why this means they were allowed to break the rules whilst myself, and my colleagues, worked hard to keep people safe.
"While members of this Government were partying and drinking, we were at the coalface, saving people’s lives. It was so stressful and there was nothing we could do to make things better."
After the petition had attracted 300,000 signatures Tovey thanked supporters, many of whom had posted stories about sacrifices they made during the coronavirus crisis.
He also encouraged people to write to their MP to highlight the petition.
He added: "Thank you. More than quarter of a million signatures in less than 24 hours!!
"I have been overwhelmed by the support from the hundreds of thousands of you who have signed, shared, and commented. Our petition has been online less than 20 hours and has over 300,000 signatures!
"That’s 300,000 of us that believe that no Prime Minister should be allowed to break the law and remain in office.
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"So many of you have been posting heartbreaking stories of what you went through during lockdown in the comments.
"It’s time to make sure that our local MPs, who are elected to represent us, hear these stories.
"If you only have 30 seconds to spare, can you please SHARE THE PETITION NOW and encourage your friends to sign. I am aiming to get 500,000 people to sign, to make sure they can't ignore us. If each of you got just one person to sign we could hit this goal."
Both the PM and Chancellor have apologised for their actions in June 2020, but have so far batted away calls for them to step down.
It is still possible they could receive further fines, with police only having investigated three out of 12 events they have said they will look into.
The PM has been linked to half of them.
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