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Ban MPs from drinking whilst voting.

Submitted on Wednesday 29th April 2026

Rejected on Tuesday 26th May 2026

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Ban MPs from drinking whilst voting.

Petition Details

To ban all alcohol in parliment whilst MPs are voting on decisions that effect millions of people around the country.

Additional Information

In any other profession you would not be allowed to drink during the day. If a teacher or doctor drank before going into a lesson with children or a surgery on a patient they would be fired immediately.

MPs represent and decide on votes that affect millions around the country.

Alcohol significantly impairs decision making by inhibiting the prefrontal cortex the brain's center for logic and reasoning. - National Library of Medicine.

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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.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:

Ban the sale and consumption of alcohol in House of Commons venues
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/768417

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