Labour must not dismiss calls for general election as ‘foreign interference’

Labour won last year’s poll by a landslide, securing 411 seats to the Tories’ 121 (PA) - (PA Archive)

Labour MPs must not to dismiss calls for a general election as “foreign interference”, a Conservative MP has urged.

Debating a House of Commons petition signed by 3.02 million people, Father of the House Sir Edward Leigh warned “public disappointment and anger” could give rise to “populism” throughout the country, if the Government cannot allay it.