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Automatically unseat any MP who changes party until a by-election is held.

Submitted on Tuesday 3rd September 2019

Rejected on Friday 6th September 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Automatically unseat any MP who changes party until a by-election is held.

Petition Details

MP's are elected on their party manifesto. When a sitting MP changes party he is no longer honouring that manifesto and ceases the represent the majority who elected him. In such a case the MP should have to stand down and a by-election must be held in his constituency.

Additional Information

There are many MP's who were elected on a pladge to honour the Brexit vote who then crossed the floor to vote against the wishes of their 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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