Remove the legal defence of Reasonable Punishment from English law.

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Popularity

This petition has 241 signatures in total, with signatories from 181 constituencies. That makes it the 13,140th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 33% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 19% (average).

Signatures by Constituency

• 5 - Tewkesbury
• 4 - Cheltenham
• 4 - Exeter
• 4 - Twickenham
• 3 - Mansfield
• 3 - Truro and Falmouth
• 3 - Warrington North
• 3 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 3 - Putney
• 3 - Denton and Reddish
• 3 - Leicester South
• 3 - Cambridge
• 3 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 2 - Sefton Central
• 2 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 2 - Salisbury
• 2 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 2 - Havant
• 2 - Newton Abbot
• 2 - South East Cornwall
• 2 - Colne Valley
• 2 - Coventry North West
• 2 - South Staffordshire
• 2 - South Ribble
• 2 - Mid Norfolk
• 2 - Manchester, Withington
• 2 - Norwich South
• 2 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 2 - Barrow and Furness
• 2 - Bournemouth West
• 2 - North Somerset
• 2 - Wallasey
• 2 - West Dorset
• 1 - North East Somerset
• 1 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 1 - Sheffield Central
• 1 - Saffron Walden
• 1 - Reading East
• 1 - North East Hertfordshire
• 1 - North Shropshire
• 1 - Sedgefield
• 1 - North Warwickshire
• 1 - Poole
• 1 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 1 - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
• 1 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 1 - Portsmouth North
• 1 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 1 - Preston
• 1 - Pudsey
• 1 - Oxford West and Abingdon
• 1 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 1 - Oldham West and Royton
• 1 - Richmond Park
• 1 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 1 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 1 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 1 - Nuneaton
• 1 - Shipley
• 1 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 1 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 1 - Torfaen
• 1 - Tunbridge Wells
• 1 - Tynemouth
• 1 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 1 - Warwick and Leamington
• 1 - Wellingborough
• 1 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 1 - West Bromwich East
• 1 - Weston-super-Mare
• 1 - Wimbledon
• 1 - Witney
• 1 - Woking
• 1 - Wolverhampton South West
• 1 - Workington
• 1 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 1 - Wyre Forest
• 1 - York Central
• 1 - The Cotswolds
• 1 - Taunton Deane
• 1 - Tatton
• 1 - Skipton and Ripon
• 1 - Slough
• 1 - South Cambridgeshire
• 1 - South Dorset
• 1 - South Down
• 1 - Stevenage
• 1 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 1 - South Shields
• 1 - South Swindon
• 1 - South West Bedfordshire
• 1 - South West Devon
• 1 - Stafford
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 1 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 1 - Streatham
• 1 - Suffolk Coastal
• 1 - Swansea East
• 1 - York Outer
• 1 - Dudley North
• 1 - Ceredigion
• 1 - Central Devon
• 1 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 1 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 1 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 1 - Broxtowe
• 1 - Broxbourne
• 1 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 1 - Chesham and Amersham
• 1 - Chichester
• 1 - Dewsbury
• 1 - Derbyshire Dales
• 1 - Croydon South
• 1 - Crawley
• 1 - Coventry South
• 1 - Congleton
• 1 - Clwyd South
• 1 - Chorley
• 1 - Broadland
• 1 - Bristol East
• 1 - Aberavon
• 1 - Battersea
• 1 - Batley and Spen
• 1 - Barnsley East
• 1 - Banbury
• 1 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 1 - Argyll and Bute
• 1 - Amber Valley
• 1 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 1 - Birmingham, Hall Green
• 1 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 1 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 1 - Bridgend
• 1 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 1 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 1 - Braintree
• 1 - Bournemouth East
• 1 - Bolton North East
• 1 - Blaydon
• 1 - Aberconwy
• 1 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 1 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 1 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 1 - Lewes
• 1 - Leeds North East
• 1 - Leeds East
• 1 - Leeds Central
• 1 - Kingswood
• 1 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 1 - Liverpool, Walton
• 1 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 1 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 1 - Newark
• 1 - Monmouth
• 1 - Mole Valley
• 1 - Mid Worcestershire
• 1 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 1 - Ludlow
• 1 - Loughborough
• 1 - Jarrow
• 1 - Islington North
• 1 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 1 - Garston and Halewood
• 1 - Fylde
• 1 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 1 - Feltham and Heston
• 1 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 1 - Eddisbury
• 1 - East Hampshire
• 1 - Eastbourne
• 1 - Great Yarmouth
• 1 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 1 - Huntingdon
• 1 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 1 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 1 - High Peak
• 1 - Harrow East
• 1 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 1 - Hammersmith
• 1 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 1 - Dulwich and West Norwood

This petition was submitted under the Parliamentary boundaries prior to June 2024, so the names may not be current constituency names

Signatures by Region

• 43 - South West
• 35 - North West
• 30 - London
• 25 - South East
• 24 - West Midlands
• 23 - East of England
• 17 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 14 - East Midlands
• 10 - Wales
• 6 - North East
• 4 - Scotland
• 1 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 236 - United Kingdom
• 1 - Czechia
• 1 - Germany
• 1 - Spain
• 1 - France
• 1 - Malaysia
• 1 - Sweden