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Petitions calling for Maria Miller's resignation 'shut down by the government'
61 appeals on official government website shut down before they could garner sufficient signatures
The government has shut down 61 online petitions calling for Tory minister Maria Miller to be sacked over her second-home expenses scandal, the Morning Star can reveal.
Petitions demanding Ms Miller be sacked as Culture Secretary have been constantly created since she was ordered last week to repay a fraction of the £45,000 in taxpayer’s cash she wrongly claimed.
But every one of the petitions on the official government website was shut down before it could attract signatures.
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