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NS#248: The Rebel Alliance

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🗓️ 13 December 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Stephen is joined by guest host Anoosh Chakelian (get well soon, Helen!) to discuss whether there is anything an MP can do these days to get the sack. They talk about the cases of Anne Marie Morris, Jared O'Mara and Damian Green, among others. Then, they address a listener question: what is a "meaningful" vote?

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Further reading:

Stephen on Anne Marie Morris

Anna Soubry in the Guardian.

Anoosh on Michael Fallon.



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1:05.6

Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Stephen and I'm Anush and in this week's podcast we discuss what counts as a sackable offense for an MP is a meaningful vote even possible and

1:11.0

why do the Tory rebels never rebel?

1:20.8

Helen is off ill, so it is me and a noose hello the EA option

1:27.8

Speaking of people who have vanished but will come back and Marie Morris has had the Conservative whip given back to her

1:35.3

five months after she used a word I can't use on this podcast without losing our

1:39.8

universal rating. Yep she's backidentally, just before a very important vote this evening, but yes.

1:46.0

I don't understand why she doesn't have to resign.

1:49.0

And I had the same thing with Michael Fallon, so we don't really know exactly what he resigned from the

1:54.2

cabinet over but he was defense secretary and he stood down so it must have been you

1:57.8

know something that he thought was substantial why doesn't he resign as an

2:01.0

MP that's another thing that really confused me. So have we lost the sort of

2:04.9

sackable offense for MPs who do something wrong? It does kind of feel like we have, if not lost it,

2:10.7

we've definitely raised the bar to, I would say, a dangerously high level.

2:15.0

Pritche Patel, who the podcast systems will know are as an operator, I think is hugely underrated.

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