THE “perverse” oath that sees MPs have to swear allegiance to the King and all of his heirs or face losing their seat in parliament should be…
THE “perverse” rule that requires MPs to swear allegiance to the King and all of his heirs or face losing their seat in parliament should be changed, campaigners say.MP Clive Lewis revealed that he had been forced to retake the oath after initially omitting to swear allegiance to all of the monarch’s “heirs and successors”.
Lewis further shared a letter of warning he had received, adding: “If I had not re-sworn the oath, then based on a law from 1866, I could be fined, subjected to legal action, and my seat ‘shall be vacated in the same manner as if were dead’.It understood that the Labour MP was the first ever called on the retake the oath.
"The oath is particularly perverse in parliament, where the right to take your seat should come only from the votes cast on election day. To be told you must swear allegiance to a monarch is outdated nonsense that flies in the face of freedom of expression."He added:"The vast majority of people in the UK support democracy and free speech. The slightly hysterical reaction to Clive's oath taking last week was confined to a small minority on the right.
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