Rejected petition Make MPs act respectfully for PMQs just as children are expected to in school.

Prime Ministers Questions seems to have been reduced to scenes of utter contempt for elected officials. In schools we teach children to behave by putting their hands up to speak and to respect the person speaking. We the electorate expect no less from the people we entrusted to speak on our behalf.

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Date submitted 9 March 2016
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