Submitted on Monday 3rd April 2023
Rejected on Wednesday 5th April 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Ban whipping to toe the party line and allow MPs free votes on all matters.
Parliament must act to reinforce fundamental principles of representative democracy which are explicit in Members' Duties. Those are duties to always act in the best interests of nation, with special consideration of the interests of all constituents. Ban a practice which favours party first.
In banning this particular aspect of whipping, Parliament will remove an established practice which undermines public confidence in representative democracy and has been used by Government to motivate MPs to act against their better judgement. It is not a practice recognised in Erskine May, under Duties of Whips. A ban will reduce opportunity for Whips to offer inducements to MPs to vote as required by party and be consistent with the Members Code, where duty to party is not mentioned.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.
Decisions about whipping are the responsibility of the political parties, and decisions about how to vote in the House of Commons are the responsibility of individual MPs, not the UK Government or Parliament as a whole.
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