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Originally Posted by pip08456
What happens with Brexit is immaterial as to what these MP's should do. They could have stayed in their respective parties and rebelled (ie voted against the party line). They chose to leave the respective partys. They should put themselves up for re-election.
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A parliamentary by-election is triggered when there is a vacancy. None of these MP have resigned from parliament.
As far as I am aware, MPs are still representatives and not delegates.
For example, in 2010, it was suggested that “Members should be required to cause a by-election if they defect to a different party from the one on whose manifesto they were elected”. However, the Government said that such a change would be “a major constitutional reform of the role of Members of Parliament and their independence” and that it had “no plans to do that”.