Submitted on Friday 17th March 2017
Rejected on Tuesday 28th March 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Osborne to resign for a by-election to seek voters' consent for his many jobs.
George Osborne's election was before accepting a very time-consuming job as an editor of a newspaper. This is a material and significant change in circumstances which was not in his manifesto. No electors knew of intention to be absent or create a conflict of interest with role as privy councillor.
This is a democratic issue rather than a party political one.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
This would be a decision for Mr Osborne, not the UK Government or Parliament.
You can read the House of Commons Code of Conduct, which contains the rules about MPs' financial interests, here:
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmcode.htm
Complaints about breaches of the House of Commons Code of Conduct are investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, who is independent of Parliament and Government. You can find out more about the Commissioner and her role here:
http://www.parliament.uk/pcs
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