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Julian Smith & Brandon Lewis to be sacked for discrimination re: maternity leave

Submitted on Thursday 19th July 2018

Rejected on Tuesday 24th July 2018

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: honours (see below for details)

Petition Action

Julian Smith & Brandon Lewis to be sacked for discrimination re: maternity leave

Petition Details

Julian Smith (Tory Chief Whip) and Brandon Lewis (Tory Chairman) are alleged to have deliberately conspired to suppress votes of a colleague whilst on maternity leave. This is a significant breach of trust, goes against accepted practice and constitutes discrimination under the Equality Act 2010.

Additional Information

It is understood that Brandon Lewis was knowingly paired with Jo Swinson on 17th July 2018 and honoured that arrangement for several votes during the day.

When it became clear the government would need additional votes during the evening Brandon Lewis and Julian Smith colluded to the benefit of their party and Lewis used his vote twice, against the agreement.

The pair then apologised on Twitter stating the arrangement had been 'forgotten' which is clearly not true. Wholly unacceptable.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We can't accept petitions about appointments, which includes calling for Ministers or other officeholders to be sacked.

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