Rejected petition Michael Fabricant should be formally sanctioned by Parliament for Islamophobia.

On 12th July 2018, MP Michael Fabricant tweeted an Islamophobic and offensive tweet depicting Sadiq Khan (London Mayor) being mounted by a pig. He should be formally sanctioned by his fellow MPs in Parliament as bringing Parliament into disrepute and damaging the integrity of the post of MP.

More details

Reported by BBC on 13th July 2018 under heading 'Tory MP Michel Fabricant accused of Islamophobia over Sadiq Khan tweet'.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Complaints about breaches of the House of Commons Code of Conduct are investigated by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, who is independent of Parliament and Government.

You can find out more about the Commissioner and her role here:

http://www.parliament.uk/pcs

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 13 July 2018
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.