Submitted on Thursday 5th September 2019
Rejected on Wednesday 11th September 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
The leader of the house must apologise to Dr David Nicholl.
Jacob Rees-Mogg compared a consultant, who helped draw up no-deal medical plans, to the disgraced anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield. Rees-Mogg has abused parliamentary privilege, under which MPs cannot be sued for comments made in the Commons.
Comparing Dr Nichols to Wakefield is going too far and is frankly unacceptable. Doctors are amongst the most trusted experts and specialists in our country. This is another attack on experts just because they disagree with the government.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The UK Government and Parliament aren't responsible for the statements of individual MPs and Ministers. However you might like to know that the Leader of the House has subsequently apologiesed to Dr Nicholl
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