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Amend rules so MPs cannot do work unrelated to representing their constituents

Submitted on Friday 24th March 2017

Rejected on Tuesday 11th April 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Amend rules so MPs cannot do work unrelated to representing their constituents

Petition Details

Recent reporting of a MP accepting the editorship of a newspaper, and having a job giving paid advice to a finance firm, has highlighted the degree to which MPs can engage in activities which take them away from the role to which they were elected by constituents.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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