General Election 2015: Latest Ukip policy could have us voting on Jeremy Clarkson's future in a national referendum
Ukip's constitutional reform proposals include a move to hold a referendum on the most popular petitions
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If Nigel Farage gets his way, the British public could be voting on hot topics such as the future of Jeremy Clarkson in a national referendum.
That’s because his party wants to hold a national vote to determine the most popular petition that attracts more than two million signatures.
The winning petition would then be included in the Queen’s Speech – the government’s legislative agenda.
The move – part of Ukip’s proposals for constitutional reform – will be held every two years, but the policy drew ridicule after suggestions it could apply to petitions such as the recent campaign to reinstate Mr Clarkson as Top Gear presenter, which attracted more than a million signatures.
The “citizen’s initative” is among a series of proposed constitutional reforms set out by Mr Farage and Ukip MP Douglas Carswell in the latter’s constituency today.
They include scrapping the first-past-the-post voting system and replacing it with a new electoral system "in which every vote counts".
There would also be new curbs on postal voting in order to prevent fraud and a power of recall enabling constituents to sack their local MP or councillor.
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