Tory MPs Stop Public Submitting Petitions To Government Until At Least September

Members of the public are unable to submit any petitions to Parliament this summer thanks to Tory MPs.
Conservative backbenchers are delaying elections to Parliamentary committees until September - including the one which runs the petition website.No new petitions have been allowed since Parliament broke up for the election on May 3, and all those open at the time were closed.Mark Hunt, Communications Director at the charity Meningitis Now, is frustrated this vital tool for the public to put pr