With a raft of scandals hitting UK politics recently we’ve been hearing a lot about MPs having the “whip” removed. But what is the whip, how does it work and how can it be taken away?
Over the past couple of weeks it seems that you can’t pick up a newspaper (old fashioned, I know), turn on the news (old fashioned, I know) or look at social media (see, I am with it really) without seeing another scandal relating to a (usually Conservative) MP.
There’s a will-they-won’t-they battle over whether the MP in question will resign or have the “whip removed”. But what does that even mean?
I thought that we’d take a look at what on Earth a whip is and why do MPs give it back or h…
