Important:

This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament

Rejected petition If MP defects /resigns, they lose all rights & trigger immediate election

When a member of Parliament defects or resigns their post they should immediately lose all parliamentary rights , remuneration & expenses and trigger an immediate election that they stood for

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/242193

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