Scrap the Westminster whipping system | Letters (opens in new tab)

Martin Luck and Vaughan Thomas respond to suggestions that Andy Burnham could reduce the use of whipping in parliamentYou suggest Andy Burnham might reduce the extent of whipping of parliamentary votes ().I have long thought that whipping should apply only to matters clearly spelled out in a party’s manifesto. After all, that is what non-independent candidates stood on when they were elected. Votes on other matters should be free, with the party free to persuade its MPs by appealing to strate...