Law makers should not be law breakers. Change the ministerial code.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Debate the changing of the ministerial code to:
A) Be independent of government, removing the the PM as ultimate arbitrator.
B) Increase the consequences for those found to be in breach of the code.
C) Require cabinet ministers who are found guilty of law breaking to resign their position.

Government ministers have been shown to not only break the rules of the ministerial code but in some cases to have also broken the law (even laws that they themselves have made). The current ability of the prime minister to be the ultimate arbitrator of ministerial code has been shown to be flawed whilst the PM is as guilty as those for which he arbitrator. This cannot be acceptable and needs to change.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Introduce independent body to enforce the ministerial code on ministers: Introduce independent body to enforce the ministerial code on ministers.

Require a Prime Minister be removed from office if found to have broken the law: Require a Prime Minister be removed from office if found to have broken the law

Require MPs who break the law be removed from office: Require MPs who break the law be removed from office

Timeline

17 Apr 2022	Petition opened for signatures
22 Apr 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 22 Apr 2022

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