Submitted on Sunday 15th September 2019
Rejected on Wednesday 2nd October 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
mps to face by election if they cross the floor
An MP has called for all Members of Parliament who defect to another party to face an immediate by-election.
Conservative Chris Skidmore said the vast majority of constituents voted for a particular party, seeing their MP as "the embodiment of the party locally".
At present, when an MP switches parties during a Parliament, a by-election is only called if the MP himself chooses to resign his seat.
But more recently several MPs have crossed the floor without a by-election. Former Northern Ireland secretary Shaun Woodward defected from the Conservatives to Labour in 1999 and faced considerable criticism for not resigning his seat.
In 2007, Quentin Davies also quit the Tories for Labour and remained an MP until the 2010 general election
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