Talk:Parliamentary privilege

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[edit] Arrest

So can MPs in the UK be arrested or are they protected against that? Do they have to be sacked first? If so who sacks them as MPs, is it the queen or can the rest of parliament do it or is the speaker?

Thanks

CaptinJohn 13:18, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

There is no privilege now against arrest for a crime or even something less (Archibald Maule Ramsay). Arrest for a civil default is uncertain now after M v. Home Office but probably no longer privileged. The House of Commons itself can expel an MP, that's one of its privileges!: see Charles Bradlaugh, Garry Allighan, ... Cutler 17:17, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Use of "liar"

Is it actually the case that legislators are forbidden by convention from using the word "liar", or simply that they may not call each other liar? If the former, then it is not always enforced: just today, Gerald Howarth referred to Mohamed Al-Fayed as "this thief, crook and liar" in the House of Commons, and the BBC News report does not say that the Speaker reproved him for his comments. Loganberry (Talk) 19:01, 21 April 2008 (UTC)