This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition 7 Labour MPs who resigned must face by-election. It's the honourable thing to do
The following MPs, Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Angela Smith, Mike Gapes, Gavin Shuker & Ann Coffey resigned from the Labour Party today.
They were elected into the Parliament on the Labour Party manifesto, if they no longer support their terms of employment, they must resign.
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Although Parliament prepared a brief on members leaving their parties, it stop short of proposing a constitutional reform to ensure that MP's being delegates of their own parties should not be allowed to derail their parties manifesto, especially during a crucial moment like Brexit.
https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/SN02537
We owe the public an orderly deliberations during Brexit, the most harmful Black-Swan event in recent generations.
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