Petitions tagged with "Defence"

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Tags are generated automatically from the petition contents, so sometimes they do end up being a bit imprecise. But manually tagging over a 100,000 petitions would be a bit of a stretch, so we'll just have to put up with the occasional dodgy tag. Sorry about that.

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• Replace the real bearskins used for the Queen’s Guard’s caps with faux fur
  Open from Thursday 6th January 2022 to Wednesday 6th July 2022
  106,354 signatures

• Make it an offence to carry a catapult in public without lawful defence
  Open from Thursday 23rd October 2025 to Thursday 23rd April 2026
  41,238 signatures

• Make it legal to carry non-lethal self defence weapons
  Open from Wednesday 10th March 2021 to Friday 10th September 2021
  35,612 signatures

• Hold a UK referendum before joining any defence and security pact with the EU.
  Open from Tuesday 15th April 2025 to Wednesday 15th October 2025
  23,530 signatures

• Reverse Cadet Forces Funding Cuts by Min of Defence and the Dept of Education.
  Open from Thursday 12th December 2024 to Thursday 12th June 2025
  17,098 signatures

• Reinstate a dedicated Minister of State for Veterans’ Affairs
  Open from Tuesday 27th September 2022 to Monday 27th March 2023
  14,893 signatures

• Legalise pepper spray in England
  Open from Monday 3rd November 2025 to Sunday 3rd May 2026
  6,829 signatures

• Pause housebuilding targets imposed on councils, review and identify local need
  Opened on Monday 30th March 2026
  4,299 signatures so far

• Support our Forces - Establish the Wider Service Medal
  Open from Tuesday 4th January 2022 to Monday 4th July 2022
  4,269 signatures

• Provide funding for body armour for frontline operational ambulance staff
  Opened on Wednesday 11th March 2026
  3,973 signatures so far

• Require a vote and consultation before implementing the new UK–EU Reset Deal
  Open from Monday 16th June 2025 to Tuesday 16th December 2025
  3,540 signatures

• Do not exempt under 18s (including school children) from self-isolating
  Open from Tuesday 6th July 2021 to Thursday 6th January 2022
  3,322 signatures

• Request a Monarch's pardon for those who were hanged for Witchcraft in 1612
  Open from Thursday 7th October 2021 to Thursday 7th April 2022
  2,809 signatures

• Stop all overseas spending including foreign aid
  Open from Tuesday 30th September 2025 to Monday 30th March 2026
  2,775 signatures

• Change the law so that possession of a catapult in public becomes an offence
  Open from Monday 21st March 2022 to Wednesday 5th October 2022
  2,091 signatures

• Deploy the Royal Navy to help stop illegal immigrants entering the UK
  Open from Wednesday 8th January 2025 to Tuesday 8th July 2025
  1,710 signatures

• Make it legal to carry regulated non-lethal self-defence products.
  Open from Friday 24th October 2025 to Friday 24th April 2026
  1,504 signatures

• Extend the law on coercive control to cover post-separation abuse
  Open from Friday 28th August 2020 to Sunday 28th February 2021
  1,322 signatures

• Review and enhance the rights of Service Family Accommodation (SFA) tenants
  Open from Tuesday 31st January 2023 to Monday 31st July 2023
  1,158 signatures

• Ban trail hunting on Ministry of Defence property
  Open from Monday 31st January 2022 to Sunday 31st July 2022
  1,043 signatures

• Don't increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP & change approach
  Open from Thursday 3rd April 2025 to Friday 3rd October 2025
  1,023 signatures

• Formally ban the use of Portsmouth Defence.
  Open from Friday 28th August 2020 to Sunday 28th February 2021
  794 signatures

• Increase defence spending by 0.15% of GDP per year, until it reaches 3.5% of GDP
  Open from Tuesday 24th December 2024 to Tuesday 24th June 2025
  767 signatures

• Stop allowing the US to use British bases for any action against Iran
  Opened on Tuesday 7th April 2026
  709 signatures so far

• Legalise pepper spray as a method of self-defence
  Open from Thursday 13th March 2025 to Saturday 13th September 2025
  578 signatures

• Formally ban the use of the "Gay Panic Defence"
  Open from Monday 19th April 2021 to Tuesday 19th October 2021
  542 signatures

• Donate migrant boats to Ukraine
  Open from Tuesday 5th November 2024 to Monday 5th May 2025
  436 signatures

• Petition for UK Defensive Border & Rear‑Area Logistics Support to Ukraine
  Opened on Monday 19th January 2026
  421 signatures so far

• Build English Channel Defence System (floating barrier) to stop beach landings
  Open from Friday 10th July 2020 to Sunday 10th January 2021
  397 signatures

• Hold a referendum on a future UK Security/Defence pact with any European country
  Open from Tuesday 13th May 2025 to Thursday 13th November 2025
  342 signatures

• Hold a public inquiry into the use of defence-linked AI in the UK public sector
  Opened on Friday 24th April 2026
  333 signatures so far

• Prevent exceptional hardship being used as a defence against driving bans
  Open from Friday 15th January 2021 to Thursday 15th July 2021
  327 signatures

• Increase defence spending to a minimum of 3% of GDP with immediate effect.
  Open from Friday 17th January 2025 to Thursday 17th July 2025
  316 signatures

• Align Coercive Control and Self-Defence to Create a New Defence to Murder
  Open from Thursday 7th January 2021 to Wednesday 7th July 2021
  310 signatures

• Restore UK Leadership in Global Development – Reverse Aid Cuts
  Open from Tuesday 8th April 2025 to Wednesday 8th October 2025
  296 signatures

• Re-establish Civil Defence Corps to enhance disaster response and emergencies.
  Open from Friday 7th February 2025 to Thursday 7th August 2025
  296 signatures

• Establish and fund a National Defence Reinvestment Programme
  Opened on Monday 13th April 2026
  284 signatures so far

• Require Government Ministers to hold sole British citizenship
  Opened on Friday 28th November 2025
  269 signatures so far

• Extend ‘Harper's Law’ to include social workers
  Open from Monday 21st March 2022 to Wednesday 5th October 2022
  268 signatures

• Give civilians the right to carry non-lethal self-defence weapons.
  Open from Tuesday 11th August 2020 to Thursday 11th February 2021
  262 signatures

• Give public option to opt out of taxes supporting British military operations
  Open from Monday 17th February 2025 to Sunday 17th August 2025
  253 signatures

• Create a Government department for the protection of women and girls
  Open from Monday 10th May 2021 to Wednesday 10th November 2021
  251 signatures

• Ban AI until there is an international framework for its use and conduct checks
  Open from Friday 2nd May 2025 to Sunday 2nd November 2025
  243 signatures

• Reverse the burden of proof in relation to consent in sexual assault cases
  Open from Friday 9th May 2025 to Sunday 9th November 2025
  219 signatures

• Formally re-establish the UK civil defence organisations and infrastructure
  Open from Friday 19th June 2020 to Saturday 19th December 2020
  208 signatures

• Launch new public inquiry into legality of the invasion of Iraq in 2003
  Open from Monday 10th January 2022 to Sunday 10th July 2022
  196 signatures

• Mandatory self-defence classes as part of school curriculum
  Open from Wednesday 17th March 2021 to Friday 17th September 2021
  193 signatures

• Legalise civilians carrying a firearm for self-defence and sport
  Open from Friday 9th October 2020 to Friday 9th April 2021
  191 signatures

• Do not mothball the tank it is an important part of the defence of the country
  Open from Tuesday 1st September 2020 to Monday 1st March 2021
  184 signatures

• Ban Applied Behaviour Analysis Therapy designed to reduce Autistic Stimming
  Open from Tuesday 25th February 2025 to Monday 25th August 2025
  179 signatures

• Require courts to allow Victim Witness Statements to be read out in court
  

• Make it legal to carry self defence products such as pepper spray in the UK.
  Open from Thursday 30th September 2021 to Wednesday 30th March 2022
  152 signatures

• Minimum 2 year prison sentence for attacks on emergency workers
  Open from Wednesday 7th October 2020 to Wednesday 7th April 2021
  149 signatures

• Allow UK citizens licences to carry firearms & other weapons for self-defence
  Open from Tuesday 8th June 2021 to Wednesday 8th December 2021
  148 signatures

• Exit ECHR & do not pay families of failed asylum seekers up to £40k to leave UK
  Opened on Thursday 9th April 2026
  129 signatures so far

• Review UK telecom Critical Network Infrastructure resilience&Domestic Capability
  Opened on Wednesday 8th April 2026
  126 signatures so far

• Increase Defence spending to 3%
  Open from Wednesday 15th July 2020 to Friday 15th January 2021
  121 signatures

• End the Use of Bearskin in the Kings Guard Headgear
  Opened on Wednesday 11th February 2026
  120 signatures so far

• The scottish gov should spend only taxes raised there before an indy ref allowed
  Open from Tuesday 1st December 2020 to Tuesday 1st June 2021
  118 signatures

• Protect homeowners who use force against intruders from prosecution
  Open from Tuesday 14th June 2022 to Wednesday 28th December 2022
  116 signatures

• Add Self Defence to the National Curriculum from Year 7 upwards
  Open from Tuesday 28th September 2021 to Monday 28th March 2022
  113 signatures

• Gift retired helicopters and a support package to Ukraine
  Open from Monday 20th January 2025 to Sunday 20th July 2025
  109 signatures

• Make smacking children illegal
  Open from Thursday 26th November 2020 to Wednesday 26th May 2021
  104 signatures

• Allow stun guns or tasers to be carried and used in self defence
  Opened on Friday 12th December 2025
  104 signatures so far

• Introduce self-defence into the secondary school PE curriculum for all students
  Open from Thursday 27th February 2025 to Wednesday 27th August 2025
  99 signatures

• Fund free self-defence classes for women in the UK
  Open from Wednesday 17th March 2021 to Friday 17th September 2021
  98 signatures

• Increase the defence budget and our standing army strength to 100,000
  Open from Wednesday 31st March 2021 to Thursday 30th September 2021
  98 signatures

• Increase defence spending to 5.5% GDP by 2029
  Open from Tuesday 2nd September 2025 to Monday 2nd March 2026
  93 signatures

• Fund new Jewish community centres to foster cohesion and combat antisemitism.
  Opened on Thursday 15th January 2026
  91 signatures so far

• Abolish the legal defence of Reasonable Chastisement in England
  Open from Thursday 17th June 2021 to Friday 17th December 2021
  85 signatures

• Make self-defence part of the secondary Physical Education curriculum
  Open from Monday 4th July 2022 to Wednesday 18th January 2023
  83 signatures

• Provide more support for military veterans with PTSD
  Open from Thursday 26th November 2020 to Wednesday 26th May 2021
  79 signatures

• Take action to prevent UK supplied missiles being fired into Russia
  Open from Thursday 9th January 2025 to Wednesday 9th July 2025
  77 signatures

• Substantially increase defence spending and the size of the Armed Forces.
  Open from Monday 28th February 2022 to Sunday 28th August 2022
  74 signatures

• Public Vote Required on Overseas Aid Spending
  Opened on Wednesday 1st April 2026
  73 signatures so far

• Public inquiry into the abolished defence of provocation, and issue apology
  Open from Tuesday 8th July 2025 to Thursday 8th January 2026
  71 signatures

• Decriminalise self-defence by any means against sexual assault
  Opened on Friday 17th April 2026
  71 signatures so far

• Establish a Royal Commission on Tidal Energy and Coastal Defence
  Open from Wednesday 27th April 2022 to Thursday 10th November 2022
  67 signatures

• Only recognise a Palestinian state if Israel joins NATO/with defence guarantees
  Open from Wednesday 10th September 2025 to Tuesday 10th March 2026
  65 signatures

• Seek to create UK/European defence force to assist Ukrainian forces
  Open from Monday 28th April 2025 to Tuesday 28th October 2025
  62 signatures

• Legalise and license sale of pepper spray
  Open from Wednesday 8th December 2021 to Wednesday 8th June 2022
  61 signatures

• Review justice system approach to domestic & sexual abuse & coercive control
  Open from Tuesday 6th May 2025 to Thursday 6th November 2025
  58 signatures

• Increase defence spending in the UK to at least 4% of GDP, immediately
  Open from Thursday 24th April 2025 to Friday 24th October 2025
  56 signatures

• Direct the DVSA to seek help from the MoD to clear the backlog of driving tests
  Open from Thursday 3rd September 2020 to Wednesday 3rd March 2021
  56 signatures

• Create a Bank Holiday in memory of armed services personnel killed in service
  Open from Monday 14th June 2021 to Tuesday 14th December 2021
  55 signatures

• Introduce self-defence lessons into the PE curriculum in all secondary schools
  Opened on Monday 8th December 2025
  55 signatures so far

• Fund self-defence for students and women, and legalise licensed defence tools
  Opened on Friday 9th January 2026
  53 signatures so far

• Recognise Military Sexual Trauma (MST) and fund support for survivors
  Open from Wednesday 20th January 2021 to Tuesday 20th July 2021
  52 signatures

• Fund construction of new fighter jets
  Open from Friday 4th April 2025 to Saturday 4th October 2025
  50 signatures

• Review, reform & means-test the state pension & scrap tuition fees
  Open from Friday 29th August 2025 to Saturday 28th February 2026
  50 signatures

• Do not cut our Armed Forces or UK Defence budget
  Open from Thursday 23rd July 2020 to Saturday 23rd January 2021
  48 signatures

• End the Immigration Health Surcharge for National Insurance payers
  

• Review Section 47 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861
  Open from Monday 11th August 2025 to Wednesday 11th February 2026
  47 signatures

• Create absolute rights to defence of person and property, and carrying weapons
  Open from Wednesday 10th August 2022 to Friday 24th February 2023
  46 signatures

• Strengthen self-defence rights for adults who intervene to protect children
  Opened on Tuesday 10th March 2026
  46 signatures so far

• Stop Mil Export Licences to Azerbaijan and Armenia until peace declared.
  Open from Tuesday 1st December 2020 to Tuesday 1st June 2021
  45 signatures

• Make it illegal to sell a drone without including a copy of the Drone Code
  Open from Wednesday 9th September 2020 to Tuesday 9th March 2021
  43 signatures

• Enact new Cybersecurity law that sets minimum standards and creates a regulator
  Open from Monday 21st July 2025 to Wednesday 21st January 2026
  40 signatures

• Increase UK defence budget
  Open from Monday 12th October 2020 to Monday 12th April 2021
  40 signatures

• Create a Government fund that accepts public donations to support Ukraine
  Open from Tuesday 1st March 2022 to Thursday 1st September 2022
  39 signatures

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