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- On 3 September 2019, the British Conservative Party withdrew the whip from 21 of its MPs who had supported an emergency motion to allow the House of Commons to undertake proceedings on the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) Bill on 4 September. In the hours after the vote, the Chief Whip Mark Spencer informed the rebel MPs that they were no longer entitled to sit as Conservatives. This led to the loss of the Conservative/DUP majority in the Commons. The suspended MPs included two former Chancellors of the Exchequer (Philip Hammond and the Father of the House, Kenneth Clarke), seven other former Cabinet members (Greg Clark, David Gauke, Justine Greening, Dominic Grieve, Oliver Letwin, Caroline Nokes and Rory Stewart), and 12 others including Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill. On 29 October 2019, 10 of the suspended MPs had the whip restored. Six stood down at the December 2019 election, while four contested it as Conservative candidates; all four retained their seats. Of the 11 who remained suspended, six declined to stand at the election, while five stood as independents or Liberal Democrats; all five lost their seats. The suspension of these MPs bore resemblance to the Maastricht Rebels who had the Conservative whip removed by the governing Conservative Party during the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty in the early 1990s. (en)
- 2019年9月3日，英國保守黨21名下議院議員被收回黨鞭，等同開除黨籍。事源是他們支持一個緊急動議，容許下议院在9月4日控制議程辯論《2019年歐洲聯盟（退出）法案（第6號）》。表決後數小時，首席黨鞭馬克·斯賓塞通知倒戈的議員不能再以保守黨身份參與國會會議。 被開除黨籍的包括（祁淦禮），前財政大臣（祁淦禮、夏文達），多名前內閣大臣（格雷格·克拉克、大衛·高克、簡意寧、多米尼克·格里夫、奥利弗·莱特温、卡罗琳·诺克斯和羅利·斯圖爾特），以及前首相邱吉爾的外孫（尼古拉斯·索梅斯）等人。 10月29日，10名黨籍被開除的議員獲恢復黨籍，當中4人代表保守黨出選同年大選並勝出，另外6人決定落馬。繼續被開除黨籍的11人中，6人放棄參選，其餘5人以自由民主黨或無黨籍身份競逐連任，全數落敗。 (zh)
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