Editing Popular initiative (section)

==== United Kingdom ====
While there is no mandate for a referendum following directly from such an initiative, the UK government has a system whereby citizens can set up online petitions, which are considered by a committee. Any petition which reaches 10,000 signatures triggers a response from the government and those which reach 100,000 signatures will almost always require the government to consider holding a debate (with some exceptions, such as whether a similar issue has been debated recently, or a debate for that issue is scheduled) on the matter in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons.]] Only British Citizens or individuals resident in the UK are allowed to start a petition or be a signatory. Petitions can be initiated via a specialist website, which also contains guidance on when petitions will, and will not, be debated. On occasion, some petitions which are signed by fewer than 100,000 people are still debated.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/sign-a-petition/e-petitions/|title=Find out more about e-petitions|website=UK Parliament|language=en|access-date=2019-12-16}}</ref> Examples of issues which have been debated in parliament via this system are various issues surrounding [[Brexit]] and a petition calling for United States President [[Donald Trump]]'s state visit to UK to be cancelled.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-47693506|title=Brexit debate: Do petitions ever work?|last=Cheung|first=Helier|date=2019-03-26|access-date=2019-12-16|language=en-GB}}</ref>