Parliament was dissolved today, so please newspapers and local Tories, immediately stop calling him our MP and call him a prospective Parliamentary candidates for East Devon – just like all the others, which is all he now is.
“When Parliament is dissolved, every seat in the House of Commons becomes vacant. All business in the House comes to an end. There are no Members of Parliament. MPs revert to being members of the public and lose privileges associated with being a Member of Parliament.”
MPs are allowed access to Parliament for just a few days in which to remove papers from their offices. The facilities that the House provides for MPs in Westminster during a Parliament are no longer available to them from 5pm on the day of dissolution.
Until a new Parliament is elected, there are no MPs. Those who wish to be MPs again must stand again as candidates for election.”
http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/elections-and-voting/general/dissolution/
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