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A bill to force MPs to call an immediate by-election if they leave their party.

Submitted on Thursday 21st February 2019

Rejected on Tuesday 26th February 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

A bill to force MPs to call an immediate by-election if they leave their party.

Petition Details

Law should be made to force immediate by-elections in those affected constituencies where an MP has left it’s party as they no-longer represent what the people voted for. This would be a solution to stop vote stealing, and unelected bodies or groups having a place or a voice in parliament.

Additional Information

In the light of the recent MP defects from both labour and conservatives, forming their own unelected Independent group.


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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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