Rejected petition: MPs who wish to switch party should resign and stand for re-election.
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Implement this change.
Electors maty not be happy with the MPs new party. So They should resign and stand for re-election under the new party banner.
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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You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/737660
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.