Members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, British members of the European Parliament

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, and members of the British devolved assemblies sometimes cross the floor

Crossing the floor

In politics, crossing the floor has two meanings referring to a change of allegiance in a Westminster system parliament.The term originates from the British House of Commons, which is configured with the Government and Opposition facing each other on rows of benches...

 and abandon a previous party membership to take up a new one. The following list details the dates, members involved, previous and new party affiliations, and an explanation for their switch. In addition, this list notes MPs who have lost or resigned a party whip to become independent, or moved from being independent to taking a party whip.

List of Members of Parliament who have crossed the floor

Date	Member	Before		After		Notes
MPs 1680-1832
1698	John Grubham Howe John Grubham Howe John Grubham Howe , commonly known as Jack Howe, was an English politician. Elected on numerous occasions as Member of Parliament, he made the transition from the Whig to the Tory faction.-Early life:...
1707	Sir Robert Harley Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer KG was a British politician and statesman of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began his career as a Whig, before defecting to a new Tory Ministry. Between 1711 and 1714 he served as First Lord of the Treasury, effectively Queen...
1725	John Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, PC, FRS was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather, Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich, as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age of ten...
1725	Sir William Pulteney William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, PC was an English politician, a Whig, created the first Earl of Bath in 1742 by King George II; he is sometimes stated to have been Prime Minister, for the shortest term ever , though most modern sources reckon that he cannot be considered to have held the...
1793	William Windham William Windham William Windham PC, PC was a British Whig statesman.-Early life:Windham was a member of an ancient Norfolk family and a great-great-grandson of Sir John Wyndham. He was the son of William Windham, Sr. of Felbrigg Hall and his second wife, Sarah Lukin...
1795	Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCH, PC, PC , usually known as Lord CastlereaghThe name Castlereagh derives from the baronies of Castlereagh and Ards, in which the manors of Newtownards and Comber were located...
1795	Thomas Pelham Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester PC, PC , FRS , styled The Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1768 until 1783, The Right Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1783 to 1801, and then known as Lord Pelham until 1805, was a British Whig politician...
1810	Charles Watkin Wiliams-Wynn	Tried to create a third political party, failed and joined the Tories.
1828	Charles Watkin Wiliams-Wynn	Wasn't offered a position in Government.
1834	Charles Watkin Wiliams-Wynn	Offered position in Government.
1832–1837 Parliament
1834	Lord George Bentinck Lord George Bentinck Lord George Frederick Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck , better known as simply Lord George Bentinck, was an English Conservative politician and racehorse owner, best known for his role in unseating Sir Robert Peel over the Corn Laws.Bentinck was a younger son of the 4th Duke of Portland, and elected a...
1837	Sir James Robert George Graham, 2nd Baronet	Resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty
1837	Lord Stanley Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC was an English statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party. He was known before 1834 as Edward Stanley, and from 1834 to 1851 as Lord Stanley...	Resigned as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies Secretary of State for War and the Colonies The Secretary of State for War and the Colonies was a British cabinet level position responsible for the army and the British colonies . The Department was created in 1801...
1847-1886 Parliaments United Kingdom general election, 1847 -Seats summary:-References:* F. W. S. Craig, British Electoral Facts: 1832-1987* British Electoral Facts 1832-1999, compiled and edited by Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher *...
1847	Sir John Young, 2nd Baronet John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar, Bt, GCB, GCMG, PC was the second Governor General of Canada, in office from 1869 to 1872.-Biography:...
1853	Sir John Young, 2nd Baronet John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar John Young, 1st Baron Lisgar, Bt, GCB, GCMG, PC was the second Governor General of Canada, in office from 1869 to 1872.-Biography:...
1868	Edward James Saunderson Edward James Saunderson Edward James Saunderson PC, JP, DL was an Irish unionist politician.He was born at Castle Saunderson, County Cavan. He was the son of Colonel Alexander Saunderson, Member of Parliament for Cavan , his mother being a daughter of the 6th Baron Farnham...
1886–1900 Parliaments MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1886 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1886 general election, held over several days from 1 July to 27 July 1886.Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included H. H...
1886	The Rt Hon. Joseph Chamberlain Joseph Chamberlain Joseph Chamberlain was an influential British politician and statesman. Unlike most major politicians of the time, he was a self-made businessman and had not attended Oxford or Cambridge University....	Created the Liberal Unionist Party after disagreeing with William Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...  and splitting over Home Rule for Ireland Irish Government Bill 1886 The Government of Ireland Bill 1886, commonly known as the First Home Rule Bill, was the first major attempt made by a British government to enact a law creating home rule for part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...  and was the President of the Board of Trade until his defection.
1886	The Rt Hon. Sir Henry James Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford GCVO, PC, QC , known as Sir Henry James between 1873 and 1895, was an Anglo-Welsh lawyer and statesman. Initially a Liberal, he served under William Ewart Gladstone as Solicitor General in 1873 and as Attorney-General between 1873 and 1874 and 1880 and 1885...	Was the Attorney-General until his defection.
1886	The Rt Hon. Edward Heneage Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage PC, JP, DL was a British Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician. He was briefly Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under William Ewart Gladstone between February and April 1886, when he broke with Gladstone over Irish Home Rule and joined the Liberal...	Was the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, in modern times, a ministerial office in the government of the United Kingdom that includes as part of its duties, the administration of the estates and rents of the Duchy of Lancaster...  until his defection.
1886	The Rt Hon. Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet	Was the Secretary for Scotland until his defection.
1886	Leonard Courtney Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith PC was a British politician, academic and man of letters...	Chairman of Ways and Means Chairman of Ways and Means In the United Kingdom, the Chairman of Ways and Means is a senior member of the House of Commons who acts as one of the Speaker's three deputies...  1886-1893
1886	Lieutenant General Lieutenant General Lieutenant General is a military rank used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages where the title of Lieutenant General was held by the second in command on the battlefield, who was normally subordinate to a Captain General....  Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet VC Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories.... , GCB Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath... , DL Deputy Lieutenant In the United Kingdom, a Deputy Lieutenant is one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of a lieutenancy area; an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county....	Was the Colonel of the Royal Irish Regiment Royal Irish Regiment (1684-1922) The Royal Irish Regiment, until 1881 the 18th Regiment of Foot, was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, first raised in 1684. Also known as the 18th Regiment of Foot and the 18th Regiment of Foot, it was one of eight Irish regiments raised largely in Ireland, its home depot in...  from 1895-1897 until he was killed in battle in 1897 whilst serving as an MP.
1886	John Corbett John Corbett (industrialist) John Corbett was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician of the Victorian era. He is particularly associated with salt mining in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire.- Family background :...
1886	William Cornwallis-West William Cornwallis-West William Cornwallis Cornwallis-West VD JP , was a British politician.Born William Cornwallis West, he was the son of Frederick Richard West, son of the Hon. Frederick West, younger son of John West, 2nd Earl De La Warr. His mother was Theresa, daughter of John Whitby...	Lord-Lieutenant of Denbighshire 1872-1917
1886	Sir William Crossman William Crossman Sir William Crossman K.C.M.G. was an officer in the Royal Engineers and a Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician.Crossman was born at Isleworth, Middlesex, the son of Robert Crossman and his wife Sarah...
1886	Sir Donald Currie Donald Currie Sir Donald Currie GCMG was a British shipowner.Currie was born in Greenock, Scotland. However, he spent his school days in Belfast at the Belfast Academy and later at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and at a very early age he was employed in the office of a shipowner in that port...
1886	George Dixon George Dixon (MP) George Dixon was English Liberal politician who was active in local government in Birmingham and sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1867 and 1898. He was a major proponent of education for all children.-Life:...
1886	Sir Henry James Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford GCVO, PC, QC , known as Sir Henry James between 1873 and 1895, was an Anglo-Welsh lawyer and statesman. Initially a Liberal, he served under William Ewart Gladstone as Solicitor General in 1873 and as Attorney-General between 1873 and 1874 and 1880 and 1885...
1886	Viscount Wolmer
1886	Viscount Ebrington Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue Hugh Fortescue, 4th Earl Fortescue KCB was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1881 until 1892 and later inherited the peerage....
1886	Viscount Howick Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl Grey was a British nobleman and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the ninth since Canadian Confederation....
1886	Viscount Baring Francis Baring, 2nd Earl of Northbrook Francis George Baring, 2nd Earl of Northbrook , styled Viscount Baring from 1876 to 1904, was a British politician....
1886	Viscount Lambton Frederick Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham Frederick William Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham was a British peer, a Liberal politician, and the son of George Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham. He inherited the Earldom from his twin brother, John Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham, when the latter died with no legitimate children.He married Beatrix Bulteel...
1886	Lord Richard Grosvenor Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge Richard de Aquila Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge PC , styled Lord Richard Grosvenor between 1845 and 1886, was a British politician and businessman. Initially a Liberal, he served under William Ewart Gladstone as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household between 1872 and 1874 and as Parliamentary...
1886	Lord Edward Cavendish Lord Edward Cavendish Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Edward Cavendish was a 19th century British politician.Born in Marylebone, Cavendish was the third son of William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire, by his wife, Lady Blanche Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire...
1886	Sir Thomas Fraser Grove, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Grove, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Fraser Grove, 1st Baronet was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1868 and 1892....
1886	Sir Robert Jardine, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Jardine, 1st Baronet Sir Robert Jardine, 1st Baronet was a Scottish businessman and Liberal politicianJardine was born at Edinburgh the son of David Jardine of Muir House, Lockerbie, Dumfries and his wife Rachel Johnstone...
1886	Sir Savile Brinton Crossley, 2nd Baronet Savile Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton Savile Brinton Crossley, 1st Baron Somerleyton GCVO, PC , known as Sir Savile Crossley, Bt, from 1872 to 1916, was a British Liberal Unionist politician who served as Paymaster General from 1902 to 1905.-Background:...
1886	Sir John St Aubyn, 2nd Baronet John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan John St Aubyn, 1st Baron St Levan , known as Sir John St Aubyn, 2nd Baronet, from 1872 to 1887, was a British Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist, politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1858 until 1887 when he was raised to the peerage.-Early life:St Aubyn was the son of Sir Edward St...
1886	Hon. Hugh Elliot Hugh Elliot (MP) Hugh Frederick Hislop Elliot , was a British Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892....
1886	The Hon. Arthur Elliot
1886	Sir Andrew Fairbairn Andrew Fairbairn (politician) Sir Andrew Fairbairn was a British Liberal politician.Fairbairn was born in Glasgow, the son of Sir Peter Fairbairn, of Woodsley House, Leeds and his wife Margaret Kennedy and educated at Geneva, at Glasgow, and at Peterhouse, Cambridge...
1886	Sir Charles Seely Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet Colonel Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet KGStJ was a British industrialist and politician.Seely was Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Nottingham from 1869 to 1874 and 1880 to 1885, and for Nottingham West from 1885 to 1886, and Liberal Unionist MP for Nottingham West from 1892 to 1895...
1886	Sir Henry Wiggin Sir Henry Wiggin, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Samuel Wiggin, 1st Baronet was a metals manufacturer and Liberal politician....
1886	John Lubbock John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....
1886	Francis Taylor Francis Taylor (MP) Francis Taylor was an English brewer and Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician.Taylor was the third son of Alfred Lombe Taylor of Diss, Norfolk. The Taylor family had property in Diss and had an interest in "Taylor and Dowson's" the brewers in the town...
1886	Jesse Collings Jesse Collings Jesse Collings was Mayor of Birmingham, England, a Liberal member of Parliament, but was best known nationally in the UK as an advocate of educational reform and land reform.-Background:...
1886	George Dixon George Dixon (MP) George Dixon was English Liberal politician who was active in local government in Birmingham and sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1867 and 1898. He was a major proponent of education for all children.-Life:...
1886	William Kenrick William Kenrick (MP) William Kenrick was an English iron founder and hardware manufacturer. He was a Liberal politician who was active in local government in Birmingham and sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1899....
1886	Cathcart Wason Cathcart Wason Cathcart Wason , generally known as Cathcart Wason, was a Scottish farmer and politician who served as a Member of Parliament in two countries: first in New Zealand and then in Scotland, after the failure of his colonial ventures...
1886	Lewis Fry Lewis Fry Lewis Fry DL, was a Quaker, lawyer, philanthropist and a Liberal and later Liberal and Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons in three spells between 1878 and 1900.-Early life:...
1886	John Corbett John Corbett (industrialist) John Corbett was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party politician of the Victorian era. He is particularly associated with salt mining in Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire.- Family background :...
1886	Richard Biddulph Martin
1886	Sir John Pender John Pender Sir John Pender , British Submarine communications cable pioneer, was born in the Vale of Leven, Scotland, and after attending school in Glasgow became a successful merchant in textile fabrics in that city and in Manchester; where he had a warehouse in Peter street near The Great Northern Warehouse...
1886	George Pitt-Lewis George Pitt-Lewis George Pitt-Lewis, KC was an English judge and Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892....
1886	Alfred Barnes Alfred Barnes (Derbyshire politician) Alfred Barnes was a British Liberal Party and later Liberal Unionist Party politician.At the 1880 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Derbyshire East...
1886	Richard Chamberlain Richard Chamberlain (politician) Richard Chamberlain was a Liberal and later Liberal Unionist politician in the United Kingdom.The younger brother of Joseph Chamberlain, he was Mayor of Birmingham from 1879 to 1880, and later Member of Parliament for Islington West from 1885 to 1892.- References:...
1886	Francis Bingham Mildmay Francis Bingham Mildmay, 1st Baron Mildmay of Flete Francis Bingham Mildmay, 1st Baron Mildmay of Flete DL, TD was initially a Liberal and later a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until 1922 when he was raised to the peerage....
1886	Hamar Alfred Bass Hamar Alfred Bass Hamar Alfred Bass was a British brewer, race horse breeder and a Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1898....
1886	William Pirrie Sinclair William Pirrie Sinclair William Pirrie Sinclair was a politician in the United Kingdom who was twice elected to the House of Commons.Standing as a Liberal Party candidate, he was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Ulster constituency of County Antrim at a by-election on 21 May 1885, where he won a majority of...
1886	Robert Thornhagh Gurdon Robert Gurdon, 1st Baron Cranworth Robert Thornhagh Gurdon, 1st Baron Cranworth was a British Member of Parliament.Cranworth was the eldest son of Brampton Gurdon of Letton Hall in Norfolk and of Grundisbugh Hall in Suffolk. He was elected to the House of Commons for South Norfolk as a Liberal in 1880, a seat he held until 1885,...
1886	Charles Fraser-Mackintosh Charles Fraser-Mackintosh Charles Fraser-Mackintosh was a Scottish lawyer, land developer, author and Liberal and Crofters Party politician. He was a significant champion of the Scottish Gaelic language in Victorian Britain.Fraser-Mackintosh was the son of Alexander Fraser, of Dochnalurg, Inverness and his wife Marjory...
1886	Lewis Fry Lewis Fry Lewis Fry DL, was a Quaker, lawyer, philanthropist and a Liberal and later Liberal and Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons in three spells between 1878 and 1900.-Early life:...
1886	George Hastings George Hastings (British politician) George Woodyatt Hastings was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1892....
1886	Henry Howard
1886	Joseph Powell-Williams Joseph Powell-Williams Joseph Powell Williams was English Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician who was active in local government in Birmingham and sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1904. He was a close political associate of Joseph Chamberlain.-Early and Working Life:...
1886	Thomas Richardson Thomas Richardson (MP) Thomas Richardson was an English manufacturer of marine engines and Liberal Party politician.Richardson was born in Castle Eden, County Durham, the son of Thomas Richardson, a shipbuilder and owner of an engineering works in Hartlepool. Richardson began as an apprentice in his father's iron...
1886	Peter Rylands Peter Rylands Peter Rylands was an English wire-manufacturer in Lancashire and a Liberal politician who was active in local government and sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1868 and 1887....
1886	John Bright John Bright John Bright , Quaker, was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with Richard Cobden in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League. He was one of the greatest orators of his generation, and a strong critic of British foreign policy...
1886	Jesse Collings Jesse Collings Jesse Collings was Mayor of Birmingham, England, a Liberal member of Parliament, but was best known nationally in the UK as an advocate of educational reform and land reform.-Background:...
1886	James William Barclay James William Barclay James William Barclay was a Scottish businessman, farmer and politician. For nineteen years he was member of parliament for Forfarshire....
1886	Alfred Barnes Alfred Barnes (Derbyshire politician) Alfred Barnes was a British Liberal Party and later Liberal Unionist Party politician.At the 1880 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Derbyshire East...
1886	Michael Biddulph Michael Biddulph, 1st Baron Biddulph Michael Biddulph, 1st Baron Biddulph was a British banker and Liberal, later Liberal Unionist, Member of Parliament ....
1886	Nevil Story Maskelyne Nevil Story Maskelyne Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne was an English geologist and politician.-Scientific career:Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, Maskelyne taught mineralogy and chemistry at Oxford from 1851, before becoming a professor of mineralogy, 1856-95. He was Keeper of Minerals at the British Museum...
1886	Edmond Wodehouse Edmond Wodehouse Edmond Robert Wodehouse PC , was an English Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906....
1886	William Sproston Caine William Sproston Caine William Sproston Caine was a British politician and Temperance advocate.Caine was born at Seacombe, Cheshire, and was the eldest surviving son of Nathaniel Caine, a metal merchant from Cheshire, and was educated at private schools in Egremont, Merseyside and Birkenhead before entering his father's...
1886	Greville Richard Vernon
1888	Henry Wentworth-FitzWilliam Henry Wentworth-FitzWilliam The Hon. William Henry Wentworth-FitzWilliam , was a British Liberal, and later Liberal Unionist politician.-Background:...
1888	Robert Cunninghame-Graham Robert Cunninghame-Graham Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham was a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer...
1893	George Joachim Goschen
1900–1906 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1900 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 27th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1900 general election, held over several days from 25 September to 24 October 1900....
1902	Cathcart Wason Cathcart Wason Cathcart Wason , generally known as Cathcart Wason, was a Scottish farmer and politician who served as a Member of Parliament in two countries: first in New Zealand and then in Scotland, after the failure of his colonial ventures...	Stood as an independent
1904	Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
1906–1918 Parliaments MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1906 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 28th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1906 general election, held over several days from 12 January to 8 February 1906....
1909	Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Kincaid-Smith Thomas Kincaid-Smith Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Malcolm Harvey Kincaid-Smith was a British Liberal politician and soldier.Commissioned into the 9th Lancers, he was promoted from second lieutenant to lieutenant in 1895. Kincaid-Smith was seconded for Colonial Office service in 1898...	Stood as an independent
1909	Carlyon Wilfroy Bellairs
1910	Rt Hon. Frederick Edward Guest Frederick Edward Guest Frederick Edward Guest CBE DSO PC , often known as Freddie Guest, was a British politician best known for being Chief Whip of Prime Minister David Lloyd George's Coalition Liberal Party between 1917 and 1921. He was also Secretary of State for Air between 1921 and 1922...
1912	George Ambrose Lloyd
1917	Sir Richard Cooper, 2nd Baronet	Those who defected in 1917 actually joined the National Party National Party (UK, 1917) The National Party was a short-lived British political party created in August 1917 as a right-wing split from the Conservative Party.-Formation:... , but before the General Election of 1918 all members apart from Croft and Cooper had returned to the Conservatives or had lost their seats.
1917	Sir Henry Page Croft
1917	Lt Col. Richard Hamilton Rawson
1917	Sir Alan Hughes Burgoyne
1917	Lt Col. The Hon. Douglas George Carnegie
1917	Viscount Duncannon Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough Captain Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough was a British businessman and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 14th since Canadian Confederation....
1917	Sir Rowland Hunt
1917	Captain The Hon. Edward Fitzroy Edward FitzRoy Captain Edward Algernon FitzRoy, DL was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1928 until his death.FitzRoy was the second son of the 3rd Baron Southampton...
1918–1922 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1918 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 1918 general election. This Parliament was elected on 14 December 1918, assembled on 4 February 1919 and was dissolved on 26 October 1922....
1918	George Nicoll Barnes George Nicoll Barnes George Nicoll Barnes CH PC was a Scottish politician and a leader of the Labour Party.Barnes was born in Lochee, Dundee, the second of five sons of James Barnes, a skilled engineer and mill manager from Yorkshire, and his wife, Catherine Adam Langlands...	Had refused to resign from the Lloyd George Coalition
1919	Cecil L'Estrange Malone Cecil L'Estrange Malone Cecil John L'Estrange Malone was Britain's first communist member of the House of Commons.-Early years:Born in Dalton Holme, Yorkshire on 7 September 1890, a rector's son, he joined the Royal Navy in 1905 and attended the Royal Naval College at Devonport. In 1912 he learned to fly and gained his...	Subsequently joined the Communist Party of Great Britain Communist Party of Great Britain The Communist Party of Great Britain was the largest communist party in Great Britain, although it never became a mass party like those in France and Italy. It existed from 1920 to 1991.-Formation:... .
1920	Sir Oswald Mosley, Bt Oswald Mosley Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet, of Ancoats, was an English politician, known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists...	Left over the Conservative Party's Irish policy, specifically the use of Black and Tans.
1922–1923 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1922 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 32nd Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1922 general election, held on the 15 November 1922....
1923	Gordon Ralph Hall Caine
1924–1929 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1924 This is a complete list of Members of Parliament elected to the 34th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1924 general election, held on 29 October 1924....
1924	Oswald Mosley Oswald Mosley Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet, of Ancoats, was an English politician, known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists...
1926	Alfred Mond Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett PC, FRS , known as Sir Alfred Mond, Bt, between 1910 and 1928, was a British industrialist, financier and politician...	Defected after falling out with Lloyd George
1927	Leslie Haden-Guest Leslie Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest Leslie Haden Haden-Guest, 1st Baron Haden-Guest MC was a British author, journalist, doctor and Labour Party politician.-Life and career:...	Resigned over China and tried to stand as an Independent.
1929	Sir Sydney Frank Markham	Later joined the Conservative Party, and became a Conservative MP in 1950
1929–1931 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1929 This is a complete list of Members of Parliament elected to the 35th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1929 general election, held on 30 May 1929....
1931	Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet Oswald Mosley Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet, of Ancoats, was an English politician, known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists...	Created the New Party
1931	Lady Cynthia Mosley Lady Cynthia Mosley Lady Cynthia Blanche Mosley was a British politician of Anglo-American parentage and the first wife of the Conservative and Labour MP and British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley...	Joined the New Party
1931	Oliver Baldwin Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley , known as Viscount Corvedale from 1937 to 1947, was a British politician who had a quixotic career at political odds to his father, three-time Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.Baldwin was educated at Eton College, and grew up in the shadow of his...	Joined the New Party but left after one day and sat as an independent instead
1931	Robert Forgan Robert Forgan Robert Forgan was a British politician who was a close associate of Oswald Mosley.-Early life and medical career:The Scottish-born Forgan was the son of a Church of Scotland minister...	Joined the New Party
February 1931	John Strachey	Joined the New Party
1931	W. E. D. Allen	Joined the New Party
1931	Cecil Dudgeon Cecil Dudgeon Cecil Randolph Dudgeon was a Scottish Liberal Party Member of Parliament who joined Oswald Mosley's New Party....	Joined the New Party
1931	Oliver Baldwin Oliver Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley Oliver Ridsdale Baldwin, 2nd Earl Baldwin of Bewdley , known as Viscount Corvedale from 1937 to 1947, was a British politician who had a quixotic career at political odds to his father, three-time Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.Baldwin was educated at Eton College, and grew up in the shadow of his...	Joined the but left after one day and sat as an independent instead
June 1931	John Strachey	Didn't agree with the parties drift towards fascism
1935–1945 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1935 This is a complete list of Members of Parliament elected to the 37th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1935 general election, held on 14 November 1935...
1935	Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl	Resigned Whip over the India Bill and the "socialist tendency" of the government's domestic policy.
1937	Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl	Resigned Whip over Anglo-Italian Agreement
1938	Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl	Resigned a third time, this time to stand as an Independent in opposition to Neville Chamberlain Neville Chamberlain Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the... 's policy of appeasement of Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
1939	Clement Davies Clement Davies Clement Edward Davies KC, MP was a Welsh politician and leader of the Liberal Party from 1945 to 1956.-Life:...
November 1939	Aneurin Bevan Aneurin Bevan Aneurin "Nye" Bevan was a British Labour Party politician who was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1959 until his death in 1960. The son of a coal miner, Bevan was a lifelong champion of social justice and the rights of working people...	Expelled from the Labour Party for seven months for supporting a "popular front Popular front A popular front is a broad coalition of different political groupings, often made up of leftists and centrists. Being very broad, they can sometimes include centrist and liberal forces as well as socialist and communist groups... "
November 1939	Sir Stafford Cripps Stafford Cripps Sir Richard Stafford Cripps was a British Labour politician of the first half of the 20th century. During World War II he served in a number of positions in the wartime coalition, including Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Minister of Aircraft Production...	Expelled from the Labour Party for seven months for supporting a "popular front Popular front A popular front is a broad coalition of different political groupings, often made up of leftists and centrists. Being very broad, they can sometimes include centrist and liberal forces as well as socialist and communist groups... "
November 1939	George Strauss George Strauss George Russell Strauss, Baron Strauss PC was a long-serving British Labour Party politician, who was a Member of Parliament for 46 years and was Father of the House of Commons from 1974 to 1979....	Expelled from the Labour Party for seven months for supporting a "popular front Popular front A popular front is a broad coalition of different political groupings, often made up of leftists and centrists. Being very broad, they can sometimes include centrist and liberal forces as well as socialist and communist groups... "
November 1939	Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet PC , the Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland, was a British Liberal, and later Labour, politician and landowner...	Expelled from the Labour Party for seven months for supporting a "popular front Popular front A popular front is a broad coalition of different political groupings, often made up of leftists and centrists. Being very broad, they can sometimes include centrist and liberal forces as well as socialist and communist groups... "
1941	Sir William Feilden, 1st Baronet Sir William Feilden, 1st Baronet Sir William Feilden, 1st Baronet was an English cotton manufacturer and a Liberal and later Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1847....
1942	Murdoch Macdonald Murdoch Macdonald Sir Murdoch Macdonald was a British politician.Born in Inverness, Macdonald was educated at Farraline Park Institution, Inverness....
1942	Edgar Granville
February 1942	Stephen King-Hall Stephen King-Hall Sir William Stephen Richard King-Hall, Baron King-Hall of Headley was a British naval officer, writer, politician and playwright. -Life:...	Opposed the party's considerations in wartime
July 1942	Sir Richard Acland Richard Acland Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet was one of the founding members of the British Common Wealth Party. He had previously been a Liberal Member of Parliament and joined the Labour Party in 1945...	Formed the Common Wealth Party Common Wealth Party The Common Wealth Party was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom in the Second World War. Thereafter, it continued in being, essentially as a pressure group, until 1993.-The war years:...  after a merger of the 1941 Committee 1941 Committee The 1941 Committee was a group of British politicians, writers and other people of influence who got together in 1940. Its members comprised liberals, and those further left, who were not generally involved with a political party. Its immediate purpose was to press for more efficient production in...  and the Forward March movement
July 1942	Vernon Bartlett Vernon Bartlett Charles Vernon Oldfield Bartlett CBE was an English journalist, politician and author who served as a Member of Parliament from 1938 to 1950.-Life:...	Fought the 1945 general election United Kingdom general election, 1945 The United Kingdom general election of 1945 was a general election held on 5 July 1945, with polls in some constituencies delayed until 12 July and in Nelson and Colne until 19 July, due to local wakes weeks. The results were counted and declared on 26 July, due in part to the time it took to...  as an independent
May 1943	Kenneth Lindsay Kenneth Lindsay Kenneth Martin Lindsay was a Labour Party politician on the United Kingdom who joined the breakaway National Labour group....
November 1944	John Eric Loverseed John Eric Loverseed John Eric Loverseed AFC was a pilot who flew with the Royal Air Force in 1930s, with Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War, and with the RAF again the Battle of Britain, before being elected as a wartime Member of Parliament MP for the Common Wealth Party...	Later joined the Labour Party
1945–1950 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1945 This is a complete list of Members of Parliament elected to the 38th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1945 general election, held on 5 July 1945....
1945	Edgar Granville
22 April 1946	Ernest Millington
21 October 1946	Tom Horabin Tom Horabin Thomas Lewis Horabin was a British Liberal Party politician who defected to the Labour Party. He sat in the House of Commons from 1939 to 1950.- Early life :Horabin was born in Merthyr Tydfil...	Declared support for the Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...  government, and took the Labour whip on 18 November 1947.
26 March 1947	John McGovern
23 July 1947	Rev Campbell Stephen Campbell Stephen Rev Campbell Stephen MA BD BSc was a Scottish socialist politician.A native of Bower parish, Caithness, he was educated at Townhead Public School, Allan Glen's School and Glasgow University....	Granted the Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...  whip on 21 October 1947.
29 October 1947	James Carmichael	Granted the Labour Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...  whip on 3 November 1947.
4 November 1947	Evelyn Walkden Evelyn Walkden Evelyn Walkden was a British politician and trades unionist.The son of a Lancashire miners' leader, he left school at 12 and fought in the First World War...	Following censure by the House for his conduct.
March 1948	John Mackie
28 April 1948	John Platts-Mills John Platts-Mills John Faithful Fortescue Platts-Mills, QC was a British Labour Party politician born in Wellington, New Zealand. He graduated with a first-class honours degree in law from Victoria University of Wellington and in 1928 won a Rhodes Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford...	Expelled from party for sending supportive telegram to Pietro Nenni Pietro Nenni Pietro Sandro Nenni was an Italian socialist politician, the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party and lifetime Senator since 1970. He was a recipient of the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951... , Italian socialist allied with the Communists.
16 May 1948	Alfred Edwards Alfred Edwards (politician) Alfred Edwards was a British politician who served for fifteen years as a Member of Parliament . His origins were as a company director in the foundry industry in Middlesbrough, which led him into conflict with the Labour Party when it proposed to nationalise the iron and steel industries;...	Expelled from party for opposition to nationalisation of steel. Granted the Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...  whip on 19 August 1949.
26 October 1948	Ivor Thomas Ivor Bulmer-Thomas Ivor Bulmer-Thomas CBE FSA, originally Ivor Thomas was a British journalist and author who served eight years as a Member of Parliament...	Resigned due to opposition to nationalisation of steel. Granted the Conservative Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...  whip on 3 January 1949.
3 October 1948	Eric Gandar Dower Eric Gandar Dower Eric Leslie Gandar Dower was a Scottish Unionist Party politician and businessman.He was educated at Brighton College, like his elder brother Leonard, and at Jesus College, Cambridge, and trained for the stage at RADA, touring with a number of theatre companies.Gandar Dower established Aberdeen...	Dispute with local association.
18 May 1949	Leslie Solley Leslie Solley Leslie Judah Solley was a British politician and barrister.Solley was born in London and attended the University of London. He worked as a scientist and then a barrister...	Expelled from party for persistently opposing government policies.
18 May 1948	Denis Nowell Pritt Denis Nowell Pritt Denis Nowell Pritt , usually known as D.N. Pritt, was a British barrister and Labour Party politician. Born in Harlesden, Middlesex, he was educated at Winchester College and London University....	Expelled from party for persistently opposing government policies.
18 May 1949	Konni Zilliacus Konni Zilliacus Konni Zilliacus was a left-wing Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.-Life:Zilliacus was born on 13 September 1894 in Japan, where his parents, Finland-Swedish Konrad Viktor Zilliacus , a prominent activist for the independence of Finland from the Russian Empire, and American-born Lilian...	Expelled from party for persistently opposing government policies.
27 July 1948	Lester Hutchinson Lester Hutchinson Hugh Lester Hutchinson was a Labour politician who was elected to represent Manchester Rusholme in the 1945 General Election....	Expelled from party for opposition to government foreign policy.
1950–1951 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1950 This is a complete list of Members of Parliament elected to the 39th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1950 general election, held on 23 February 1950....
4 August 1950	Raymond Blackburn Raymond Blackburn Albert Raymond Blackburn was a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for the Birmingham King's Norton and Birmingham Northfield constituencies.-Politics:...	Called for Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...  to be Prime Minister in a Coalition government.
May 1951	John MacLeod John MacLeod (politician) Sir John MacLeod TD was a British army officer, tweed designer and politician who was a Member of Parliament in the Scottish highlands for 19 years.-Family:...
1951	Sir Arthur Salter
1951–1955 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1951 This is a complete list of Members of Parliament elected to the 40th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1951 general election on 25 October 1951.Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included Anthony Barber, Lord Lambton and Ted Short....
2 June 1954	Sir John Mellor	Resigned whip over increase in MPs' salaries (Mellor was opposed). Whip restored 14 July 1954.
14 July 1954	Sir Harry Legge-Bourke Harry Legge-Bourke Major Sir Edward Alexander Henry Legge-Bourke KBE was a British politician.He served alongside Jock Colville as a Page of Honour from 1926. Educated at Eton College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Legge-Bourke was commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards in 1934. He served there throughout...	Opposed to policy of withdrawing British base in Suez canal Suez Canal The Suez Canal , also known by the nickname "The Highway to India", is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Opened in November 1869 after 10 years of construction work, it allows water transportation between Europe and Asia without navigation...  zone. Whip restored 18 October 1954.
23 November 1954	S. O. Davies S. O. Davies Stephen Owen Davies was a Welsh politician, and a member of the House of Commons from 1934 to his death....	Whip withdrawn after breaking the whip over German rearmament.
23 November 1954	George Craddock George Craddock George Craddock was a British Labour politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for Bradford South at a 1949 by-election, and served until his retirement at the 1970 general election. He should not be confused with Sir George Beresford Craddock who served as a Conservative MP at around the...	Whip withdrawn after breaking the whip over German rearmament.
23 November 1954	Ernest Fernyhough Ernest Fernyhough Ernest Fernyhough was a British Labour Party politician.Fernyhough worked for the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers from 1936....	Whip withdrawn after breaking the whip over German rearmament.
23 November 1954	Emrys Hughes Emrys Hughes Emrys Hughes was a Welsh Labour politician, best known for being the biographer and son-in-law of Keir Hardie, the Scottish Labour politician.Hughes was born in Tonypandy, Wales, the son of the Reverend J. R. Hughes...	Whip withdrawn after breaking the whip over German rearmament.
23 November 1954	Sydney Silverman Sydney Silverman Samuel Sydney Silverman was a British Labour politician and vocal opponent of capital punishment.-Early life:...	Whip withdrawn after breaking the whip over German rearmament.
23 November 1954	Victor Yates Victor Yates Victor Francis Yates was a British pacifist Labour politician.He was Member of Parliament for Birmingham, Ladywood from 1945 until his death in 1969. In the subsequent by-election the seat was gained by the Liberal candidate Wallace Lawler.-External links:...	Whip withdrawn after breaking the whip over German rearmament.
23 November 1954	John McGovern	Whip withdrawn after breaking the whip over German rearmament.
10 March 1955	Sir Richard Acland Richard Acland Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet was one of the founding members of the British Common Wealth Party. He had previously been a Liberal Member of Parliament and joined the Labour Party in 1945... , Bt.	Opposed to party policy on nuclear arms. Simultaneously resigned his seat in order to seek re-election.
16 March 1955	Aneurin Bevan Aneurin Bevan Aneurin "Nye" Bevan was a British Labour Party politician who was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1959 until his death in 1960. The son of a coal miner, Bevan was a lifelong champion of social justice and the rights of working people...	Whip withdrawn for challenging the authority of Party leader. Whip restored 28 April 1955.
1955–1959 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1955 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 41st Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1955 general election, held on 26 May 1955. A total of 630 MPs were elected.Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included William Whitelaw and Geoffrey Rippon....
8 November 1956	Colonel Cyril Banks Cyril Banks Colonel Cyril Banks MBE was a British engineer, company director, and politician. He was a Conservative Party representative, but his friendship with President Nasser and Egypt led him to sacrifice his career over the invasion of Suez.-Early career:Banks was born in Sheffield, to a lower...	Resigned whip over the Suez Crisis Suez Crisis The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez War was an offensive war fought by France, the United Kingdom, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956. Less than a day after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to Egypt and Israel,...  (Banks was friendly with Egypt Egypt Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world... ). The whip was restored on 19 December 1958.
13 May 1957	The Hon. Patrick Maitland Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale Patrick Francis Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale FRGS , styled Hon. Patrick Maitland from 1953 to 1968, was a British Conservative politician.-Early life:...	Resigned whip over the Suez Crisis Suez Crisis The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez War was an offensive war fought by France, the United Kingdom, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956. Less than a day after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to Egypt and Israel,... , wanting UK involvement in Suez to continue (whip restored 23 December 1957)
13 May 1957	John Biggs-Davison John Biggs-Davison Sir John Alec Biggs-Davison was a Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for Chigwell from 1955 and then, after boundary changes in 1974, Epping Forest until his death. He was a leading figure in the Conservative Monday Club.-Early years:The son of Major John Norman Biggs-Davison,...	Resigned whip over the Suez Crisis Suez Crisis The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez War was an offensive war fought by France, the United Kingdom, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956. Less than a day after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to Egypt and Israel,... , wanting UK involvement in Suez to continue (whip restored 11 July 1958)
13 May 1957	Anthony Fell Anthony Fell (politician) Sir Anthony Fell was a British Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons for most the years from 1951 to 1983....	Resigned whip over the Suez Crisis Suez Crisis The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez War was an offensive war fought by France, the United Kingdom, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956. Less than a day after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to Egypt and Israel,... , wanting UK involvement in Suez to continue (whip restored 11 July 1958)
13 May 1957	Viscount Hinchingbrooke Victor Montagu Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu, 10th Earl of Sandwich , known as Viscount Hinchingbrooke from 1916 to 1962, as the Earl of Sandwich from 1962 to 1964 and as Victor Montagu from 1964 to 1995, was a British Conservative Member of Parliament and right-wing politician.Montagu was the eldest...	Resigned whip over the Suez Crisis Suez Crisis The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez War was an offensive war fought by France, the United Kingdom, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956. Less than a day after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to Egypt and Israel,... , wanting UK involvement in Suez to continue (whip restored 11 July 1958)
13 May 1957	Lawrence Turner Lawrence Turner Henry Frederic Lawrence Turner was a British politician. As an officer in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War he survived three years as a prisoner of war of the Japanese; he passed his captivity by lecturing on politics. After the war ended he moved into politics and was elected as...	Resigned whip over the Suez Crisis Suez Crisis The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez War was an offensive war fought by France, the United Kingdom, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956. Less than a day after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to Egypt and Israel,... , wanting UK involvement in Suez to continue (whip restored 11 July 1958)
13 May 1957	Paul Williams Paul Williams (politician) Paul Glyn Williams was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Sunderland South from 1953 to 1964. He was also a prominent businessman...	Resigned whip over the Suez Crisis Suez Crisis The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez War was an offensive war fought by France, the United Kingdom, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956. Less than a day after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to Egypt and Israel,... , wanting UK involvement in Suez to continue (whip restored 11 July 1958)
13 May 1957	Angus Maude Angus Maude Angus Edmund Upton Maude, Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon PC , was a Conservative Party politician and British cabinet member from 1979 until 1981. He was the father of Conservative MP Francis Maude....	Resigned whip over the Suez Crisis Suez Crisis The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez War was an offensive war fought by France, the United Kingdom, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956. Less than a day after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to Egypt and Israel,... , wanting UK involvement in Suez to continue and subsequently resigned their seat.
13 May 1957	Sir Victor Raikes Victor Raikes Sir Henry Victor Alpin MacKinnon Raikes KBE was a British Conservative politician.Raikes was the son of Henry St. John Digby Raikes, eldest son of Henry Cecil Raikes. His mother was Annie Lucinda...	Resigned whip over the Suez Crisis Suez Crisis The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez War was an offensive war fought by France, the United Kingdom, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956. Less than a day after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to Egypt and Israel,... , wanting UK involvement in Suez to continue and subsequently resigned their seat.
14 November 1957	Sir Frank Medlicott Frank Medlicott Brigadier Frank Medlicott was a National Liberal Party and later Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.He first stood for parliament as a Liberal, contesting Acton in 1929....	Resigned whip over the Suez Crisis Suez Crisis The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression, Suez War was an offensive war fought by France, the United Kingdom, and Israel against Egypt beginning on 29 October 1956. Less than a day after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France issued a joint ultimatum to Egypt and Israel,...  (Medlicott was opposed to the invasion). Whip restored 21 November 1958.
30 January 1959	Sir David Robertson David Robertson (UK politician) Sir David Robertson was a British accountant, company director and politician. From a Scottish family, he represented first a constituency in London and then the Scottish highlands constituency of Caithness and Sutherland...	Resigned whip over policy on the Scottish highlands.
1959–1964 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1959 This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the 42nd Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1959 general election, held on 8 October 1959.Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included Margaret Thatcher, Nicholas Ridley, Jim Prior, Peter Tapsell, John Morris and Jeremy Thorpe...
16 March 1961	William Baxter William Baxter (MP) William Baxter was a British Labour Party politician, building contractor and farmer.He was a conscientious objector in the Second World War....	Whip withdrawn for voting against the Army estimates.
16 March 1961	S. O. Davies S. O. Davies Stephen Owen Davies was a Welsh politician, and a member of the House of Commons from 1934 to his death....	Whip withdrawn for voting against the Army estimates.
16 March 1961	Michael Foot Michael Foot Michael Mackintosh Foot, FRSL, PC was a British Labour Party politician, journalist and author, who was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1955 and from 1960 until 1992...	Whip withdrawn for voting against the Army estimates.
16 March 1961	Emrys Hughes Emrys Hughes Emrys Hughes was a Welsh Labour politician, best known for being the biographer and son-in-law of Keir Hardie, the Scottish Labour politician.Hughes was born in Tonypandy, Wales, the son of the Reverend J. R. Hughes...	Whip withdrawn for voting against the Army estimates.
16 March 1961	Sydney Silverman Sydney Silverman Samuel Sydney Silverman was a British Labour politician and vocal opponent of capital punishment.-Early life:...	Whip withdrawn for voting against the Army estimates.
22 March 1961	Alan Brown Alan Grahame Brown Alan Grahame Brown was a British pharmaceutical chemist and politician. During a single term in Parliament, he abandoned the Labour Party and joined the Conservative Party due to policy differences.- Training :...	Opposed to party defence policy.
22 March 1961	Konni Zilliacus Konni Zilliacus Konni Zilliacus was a left-wing Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.-Life:Zilliacus was born on 13 September 1894 in Japan, where his parents, Finland-Swedish Konrad Viktor Zilliacus , a prominent activist for the independence of Finland from the Russian Empire, and American-born Lilian...	Whip suspended until January 1962 for writing critical article in Communist publication.
19 October 1961	Sir William Duthie William Duthie Sir William Smith Duthie was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Banffshire from 1945 until his retirement at the 1964 general election.- External links :...	Resigned whip over policy on salmon Salmon Salmon is the common name for several species of fish in the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the same family are called trout; the difference is often said to be that salmon migrate and trout are resident, but this distinction does not strictly hold true...  fishing industry. The whip was restored on 15 November 1963.
4 May 1962	Alan Brown Alan Grahame Brown Alan Grahame Brown was a British pharmaceutical chemist and politician. During a single term in Parliament, he abandoned the Labour Party and joined the Conservative Party due to policy differences.- Training :...
23 January 1964	Dr Donald Johnson Donald McIntosh Johnson Dr Donald McIntosh Johnson was a British general practitioner, author and politician who was a Member of Parliament for nine years...	Dispute with local party.
1964–1966 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1964 This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1964 general election, held on 15 October 1964, for the 43rd Parliament of the United Kingdom....
1964	Joan Vickers Joan Vickers Joan Helen Vickers, Baroness Vickers, DBE was a British National Liberal and Conservative Party politician.Vickers was educated at St Monica's, Burgh Heath, Surrey, and in Paris. She served with the Red Cross in South East Asia and was area welfare officer of the Social Welfare Department in...	Party disbanded
1966–1970 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1966 This is a list of members of Parliament elected to the 44th Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1966 general election, held on 31 March 1966.Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included David Owen, John Nott, Michael Heseltine, Jack Ashley, Donald Dewar, Gwyneth Dunwoody, John Pardoe and...
10 July 1966	Geoffrey Hirst Geoffrey Hirst Geoffrey Audus Nicholson Hirst TD was a British industrialist and politician who was a maverick Conservative Member of Parliament.-Early career:...	Failed to persuade party to vote against Prices and Incomes Bill.
8 December 1966	Reginald Paget Reginald Paget, Baron Paget of Northampton Reginald Thomas Guy Des Voeux Paget, Baron Paget of Northampton, PC, QC, , also known as Reginald Guy Thomas Du Voeux Paget was a British lawyer and Labour politician....	Resigned the whip because of opposition to United Nations United Nations The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...  sanctions on Rhodesia Rhodesia Rhodesia , officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state located in southern Africa that existed between 1965 and 1979 following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965... . The whip was restored on 15 June 1967.
1966	Sir Julian Ridsdale Julian Ridsdale Sir Julian Errington Ridsdale, CBE was a British National Liberal and later Conservative Party politician and long-serving Member of Parliament for the constituency of Harwich in Essex...	Party disbanded
1966	David Renton	Party disbanded
1968	Sir John Nott John Nott Sir John William Frederic Nott KCB is a former British Conservative Party politician prominent in the late 1970s and early 1980s...	Party disbanded
18 January 1968	Desmond Donnelly Desmond Donnelly Desmond Louis Donnelly was a British politician, author and journalist who was a member of four different political parties during the course of his career, and moved between parties on five occasions.- Origins :...	Opposed to defence cuts 'east of Suez', later joined the Conservative Party.
31 January 1968	Frank Allaun Frank Allaun Frank Julian Allaun was a British Labour politician.Born in Manchester, Allaun was educated at Manchester Grammar School and worked as an engineer, shop assistant, tour leader, chartered accountant and journalist. He helped to organise the first Aldermaston March in 1958 and was chair of the...	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968. The all the MPs had abstained on 18 January 1968 on a vote on spending cuts; All listed below were also suspended
31 January 1968	Norman Atkinson Norman Atkinson Norman Atkinson is a British politician who served as Labour Member of Parliament for the London constituency of Tottenham from 1964 until 1987....	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Albert Booth Albert Booth Albert Edward Booth was a British Labour Party politician.Booth was educated at Marine School, South Shields and Rutherford College of Technology . He was a design draughtsman. He served as a councillor on Tynemouth Council 1962-65.Booth contested Tynemouth in 1964...	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	James Dickens James Dickens (UK politician) James McCulloch York Dickens has been a British Labour politician. He was Member of Parliament for the marginal constituency of Lewisham West from 1966 to 1970.He was a member of the Tribune Group of left-wing MPs. His seat was gained by the Conservative candidate John Gummer.After leaving...	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	S. O. Davies S. O. Davies Stephen Owen Davies was a Welsh politician, and a member of the House of Commons from 1934 to his death....	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Michael Foot Michael Foot Michael Mackintosh Foot, FRSL, PC was a British Labour Party politician, journalist and author, who was a Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1955 and from 1960 until 1992...	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Will Griffiths William Griffiths (politician) William Griffiths was a British Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Moss Side from 1945 until 1950 and for Manchester Exchange from 1950 until his death in 1973....	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Dr John Dunwoody John Dunwoody John Elliot Orr Dunwoody CBE was a British Labour politician.Dunwoody was educated at St Paul's School, then trained as a doctor at King's College London, and Westminster Hospital Medical School...	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Eric Heffer Eric Heffer Eric Samuel Heffer was a British socialist politician. He was Labour Member of Parliament for Liverpool Walton from 1964 until his death. His working-class background and consciousness fed in to his left-wing politics, but to an extent disguised the depth of his knowledge: with 12,000 books in...	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Willie Hamilton Willie Hamilton William Winter "Willie" Hamilton was a British politician who served as a Labour Member of Parliament for constituencies in Fife, Scotland between 1950 and 1987...	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Emrys Hughes Emrys Hughes Emrys Hughes was a Welsh Labour politician, best known for being the biographer and son-in-law of Keir Hardie, the Scottish Labour politician.Hughes was born in Tonypandy, Wales, the son of the Reverend J. R. Hughes...	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Peter Jackson	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Anne Kerr	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Russell Kerr Russell Kerr Russell Whiston Kerr was a British Labour Party politician.Kerr was educated at the Shore School, Sydney, Sydney Church of England Grammar School and Sydney University. He served with the Pathfinder Force of the Royal Air Force during World War II. He became a director of the Town and Country...	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Malcolm Macmillan Malcolm Macmillan Malcolm Kenneth Macmillan was a Scottish Labour Party politician and journalist.At the 1935 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the Western Isles...	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	John Mendelson John Mendelson John Jakob Mendelson was a British Labour Party politician.Mendelson was educated at the University of London and became a university lecturer in political science...	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Stanley Newens Stanley Newens Arthur Stanley Newens, known as Stan Newens, is a former British Labour Co-operative politician. He is a former Member of Parliament and Member of the European Parliament ....	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Christopher Norwood Christopher Norwood Christopher Bonnewell Burton Norwood was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for Norwich South from 1964 until he stood down at the 1970 general election....	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Stan Orme Stanley Orme, Baron Orme Stanley Orme, Baron Orme PC was a British Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1964 to 1997, and served as a cabinet minister in the 1970s.-Early life:Stan Orme was born in Sale, Cheshire...	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Trevor Park Trevor Park Joseph Trevor Park was a British lecturer and politician. He was a Labour Party Member of Parliament during Harold Wilson's government in the 1960s, a government which he regarded as unhelpful to the interests of Labour voters.-Teaching career:Park was born in Lancashire, the son of textile workers...	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	John Ryan John Ryan (UK politician) John Ryan was a British politician, businessman and University Lecturer.-Student political career:Ryan was born in Scotland and went to Lanark Grammar School followed by Glasgow University where he obtained an Honours degree in Economic History...	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Sydney Silverman Sydney Silverman Samuel Sydney Silverman was a British Labour politician and vocal opponent of capital punishment.-Early life:...	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Tom Swain Thomas Henry Swain Thomas Henry 'Tom' Swain was a British Labour politician who served as Member of Parliament for the constituency of Derbyshire North East from 1959 until he died in office 20 years later....	Whip suspended from 31 January 1968 to 29 February 1968.
31 January 1968	Carol Johnson Carol Johnson Carol Alfred Johnson, CBE was a British Labour politician. He was Member of Parliament for Lewisham South from 1959 until the general election of February 1974, when the constituency was abolished by boundary changes.-References:...	Had abstained in protest at the Whips' lack of disciplinary action.
1970–1974 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1970 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 45th Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 1970 general election held on 18 June 1970.Notable newcomers to the House of Commons included John Prescott, Norman Tebbit, Ian Paisley, John Smith, Neil Kinnock, Kenneth Clarke, John Gummer, Alan...
24 August 1970	Gerry Fitt Gerry Fitt Gerard Fitt, Baron Fitt was a politician in Northern Ireland. He was a founder and the first leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party , a social democratic and Irish nationalist party.-Early years:...	Formed new party.
30 September 1971	Ian Paisley Ian Paisley Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, PC is a politician and church minister in Northern Ireland. As the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party , he and Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness were elected First Minister and deputy First Minister respectively on 8 May 2007.In addition to co-founding...	Protestant Unionists merged into new party.
16 February 1972	Ray Gunter Ray Gunter Raymond Jones Gunter , British Labour Party politician, was born in Wales and had a background in the railway industry and the British trade union movement – specifically his union, the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association .After seeing active service in the Second World War, enlisting in the...	Opposed to take-over of party by middle-class intellectuals.
6 October 1972	Dick Taverne Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne, QC, is an English politician, who is one of the small number of members of the British House of Commons elected since the Second World War who was not the candidate of a major political party...	Dispute with local party. Simultaneously resigned seat to seek re-election.
29 April 1973	Stratton Mills Stratton Mills William Stratton Mills, known as Stratton Mills , is a retired solicitor and former politician in Northern Ireland.He was the only Member of Parliament to have sat for the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland in the British House of Commons, until Naomi Long won Belfast East in 2010...
1974 Parliament
9 July 1974	Christopher Mayhew Christopher Mayhew Christopher Paget Mayhew, Baron Mayhew was a British politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1974, when he left the Labour Party to become a Liberal...	Believed Labour was too vulnerable to left takeover.
1974–1979 Parliament
11 October 1975	John Dunlop John Dunlop (Northern Ireland politician) John Dunlop was a Unionist politician from Northern Ireland.He was Member of Parliament for Mid Ulster from 1974 to 1983. Initially elected as a member of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party, from 1976 he represented the short-lived breakaway United Ulster Unionist Party.- External links :...	Split with leadership over proposal for voluntary power-sharing in Northern Ireland.
1975	James Kilfedder James Kilfedder Sir James Alexander Kilfedder was a Northern Ireland unionist politician.-Early life:...	Opposed to the growth of support for the full integration of Northern Ireland into the United Kingdom, remained committed to devolution.
19 November 1975	Robert Bradford Robert Bradford (NI politician) Robert Jonathan Bradford MP was a Vanguard Unionist and Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for the Belfast South constituency in Northern Ireland until he was killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on 14 November 1981....	Opposed to power-sharing.
7 April 1976	John Stonehouse John Stonehouse John Thomson Stonehouse was a British politician and minister under Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is perhaps best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974...	Believed new Prime Minister James Callaghan James Callaghan Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC , was a British Labour politician, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980...  did not have a mandate.
14 April 1976	John Stonehouse John Stonehouse John Thomson Stonehouse was a British politician and minister under Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is perhaps best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974...		English National English National Party English National Party has been the name of various political parties of England.-The original ENP:The English National Party was founded as the John Hampden New Freedom Party in the 1960s by Frank Hansford-Miller. In 1974, it renamed itself the "English Nationalist Party"...
26 July 1976	Jim Sillars Jim Sillars Jim Sillars is a Scottish politician. He is married to current member of the Scottish Parliament, Margo MacDonald.-Early life:...		Scottish Labour Scottish Labour Party (1976) The Scottish Labour Party was formed on January 18, 1976, as a breakaway from the UK Labour Party, by members disaffected with the then Labour Government's failure to secure a devolved Scottish Assembly, as well as with its social and economic agenda...	Formed rebel party earlier; resigned Labour whip over public spending cuts.
26 July 1976	John Robertson John Robertson (Scottish Labour Party founder) John Robertson was a British politician, who sat as a Labour Member of Parliament before co-founding the Scottish Labour Party in 1976....		Scottish Labour Scottish Labour Party (1976) The Scottish Labour Party was formed on January 18, 1976, as a breakaway from the UK Labour Party, by members disaffected with the then Labour Government's failure to secure a devolved Scottish Assembly, as well as with its social and economic agenda...	Formed rebel party earlier; resigned Labour whip over public spending cuts.
8 October 1977	Reg Prentice	Believed Labour should be defeated at the next election.
26 November 1977	William Craig	Party wound up.
1979–1983 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1979 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 48th Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 1979 general election, held on 3 May 1979. This Parliament was dissolved in 1983....
24 August 1979	Gerry Fitt Gerry Fitt Gerard Fitt, Baron Fitt was a politician in Northern Ireland. He was a founder and the first leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party , a social democratic and Irish nationalist party.-Early years:... Socialist	Dispute with party over talks process.
17 January 1980	James Kilfedder James Kilfedder Sir James Alexander Kilfedder was a Northern Ireland unionist politician.-Early life:...		Ulster Progressive Unionist Party Ulster Popular Unionist Party The Ulster Popular Unionist Party was a unionist political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1980 by James Kilfedder, independent Unionist Member of Parliament for North Down, who led the party until his death in 1995....	Formed party (renamed 'Ulster Popular Unionist Party' in March 1980).
20 February 1981	Richard Crawshaw Richard Crawshaw Richard Crawshaw, Baron Crawshaw of Aintree OBE, known as Dick Crawshaw was elected as a British Labour Party Member of Parliament in 1964 but joined the SDP in 1981.-Politics:...	Resigned whip prior to launch of new party, which he joined on 2 March 1981.
20 February 1981	Tom Ellis Tom Ellis (politician) Robert Thomas Ellis, , commonly known as Tom Ellis, was a British politician who was elected several times as a Labour Member of Parliament, and later defected to the Social Democratic Party ....	Resigned whip prior to launch of new party, which he joined on 2 March 1981.
2 March 1981	John Cartwright John Cartwright (UK politician) John Cameron Cartwright is a former politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Labour and then an SDP Member of Parliament representing Woolwich East then Woolwich from the October 1974 general election to the 1992 election....	Formed new party.
2 March 1981	John Horam John Horam John Rhodes Horam is a politician in the United Kingdom. He sat in the House of Commons for two separate periods between 1970 and 2010, as a member of three different political parties, latterly as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Orpington until 2010.-Early life:Horam was born in...	Formed new party.
2 March 1981	Robert Maclennan Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart Robert Adam Ross "Bob" Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart PC is a British Liberal Democrat life peer. He was the last leader of the Social Democratic Party , serving during the negotiations that led to its merger with the Liberal Party in 1988...	Formed new party.
2 March 1981	John Roper John Roper, Baron Roper John Francis Hodgess Roper, Baron Roper is a British politician.John Roper was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School , Reading School, Magdalen College, Oxford and the University of Chicago....	Formed new party.
2 March 1981	David Owen David Owen David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen CH PC FRCP is a British politician.Owen served as British Foreign Secretary from 1977 to 1979, the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post; he co-authored the failed Vance-Owen and Owen-Stoltenberg peace plans offered during the Bosnian War...	Formed new party.
2 March 1981	Bill Rodgers William Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank William Thomas Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, PC , usually known as William Rodgers but also often known as Bill Rodgers, was one of the "Gang of Four" of senior British Labour Party politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party...	Formed new party.
2 March 1981	Neville Sandelson Neville Sandelson Neville Devonshire Sandelson was a British politician.Sandelson was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a barrister, called to the bar by Inner Temple in 1946, and director of a publishing company...	Formed new party.
2 March 1981	Mike Thomas Michael Thomas (politician) Michael Stuart Thomas, known as Mike Thomas, is a former British politician, identified with the Labour Party until 1981 and thereafter with the Social Democratic Party. He became well known for his role in both the establishment of the SDP and then in the SDP's subsequent demise...	Formed new party.
2 March 1981	Ian Wrigglesworth Ian Wrigglesworth Sir Ian William Wrigglesworth is Deputy Chairman of the Government's Regional Growth Fund Advisory Panel which is Chaired by Lord Heseltine and appointed by the Government to consider bids. He is Chief Executive of a Gateshead based commercial property investment company and is Chairman of the...	Formed new party.
16 March 1981	Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler was a British politician, most notable for being the sole Conservative Member of Parliament to defect to the Social Democratic Party ....
19 March 1981	Edward Lyons Edward Lyons Edward Lyons, QC was a British politician.Lyons was educated at Roundhay High School and Leeds University. Following World War II, he worked as a Russian interpreter in Germany attached to the Control commission...
4 July 1981	James Wellbeloved James Wellbeloved Alfred James Wellbeloved is a former British politician.Wellbeloved was educated at South London Technical College and was a commercial and industrial correspondent...
7 September 1981	Michael O'Halloran Michael O'Halloran (UK politician) Michael Joseph O'Halloran was a British politician. He was brought up in County Clare, and, finding no employment, he "drifted to London" in 1948, aged 15, and worked as a railwayman until he entered politics....
1 October 1981	Dr Dickson Mabon Dickson Mabon Dr. Jesse Dickson "Dick" Mabon PC FRSA was a Scottish politician, physician and company director. He was the founder of The Manifesto Group of Labour MPs, an alliance of moderate MPs against the perceived leftward drift of the Labour Party in the 1970s. He was a Labour Co-operative MP until...
5 October 1981	Bob Mitchell
6 October 1981	David Ginsburg David Ginsburg David Ginsburg was a British politician.Ginsburg was educated at University College School, Hampstead, and Balliol College, Oxford. During his time at Oxford University, he was Chair of the Oxford University Democratic Socialist Club...
7 October 1981	James Dunn
7 October 1981	Tom McNally Thomas McNally, Baron McNally Tom McNally, Baron McNally, PC is a British politician and the current Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords and a Minister of State for Justice.-Early life:...
29 October 1981	Eric Ogden Eric Ogden Eric Ogden was a British politician.Eric Ogden was a miner and studied at the Wigan and District Mining and Technical College....
16 November 1981	John Grant John Grant (British politician) John Douglas Grant was a British Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1983. He was as a member of the Labour until he left in 1981 to join the new Social Democratic Party . He represented Islington East from 1970 to 1974 and Islington Central from 1974-1983.Grant was born in Finsbury Park, North London...
30 November 1981	George Cunningham George Cunningham George Cunningham is a British politician.Cunningham was educated at Dunfermline High School, Blackpool Grammar School and the University of Manchester. He worked for the Labour Party as Commonwealth officer....
2 December 1981	Ronald Brown Ronald Brown (English politician) Ronald William Brown was a British Labour Party politician. He was the younger brother of George Brown, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970....
11 December 1981	Bruce Douglas-Mann Bruce Douglas-Mann Bruce Leslie Home Douglas-Mann was a British politician.Bruce Douglas-Mann was born at Bexhill, Sussex, the son of a solicitor, Leslie John Douglas-Mann, MC....	Subsequently resigned his seat and restood unsuccessfully for the Social Democratic Party Social Democratic Party (UK) The Social Democratic Party was a political party in the United Kingdom that was created on 26 March 1981 and existed until 1988. It was founded by four senior Labour Party 'moderates', dubbed the 'Gang of Four': Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams... .
11 December 1981	Jeffrey Thomas Jeffrey Thomas (politician) Jeffrey Thomas, QC was a British politician.Thomas was educated at Abertillery Grammar School and King's College London, where he was president of the Students Union 1955-56. He was a barrister, called to the bar by Gray's Inn in 1957, and was appointed Queen's Counsel.Thomas was elected as a...
22 December 1981	Ednyfed Hudson Davies
22 January 1982	Bryan Magee Bryan Magee Bryan Edgar Magee is a noted British broadcasting personality, politician, poet, and author, best known as a popularizer of philosophy.-Early life:...	Took Social Democratic Party Social Democratic Party (UK) The Social Democratic Party was a political party in the United Kingdom that was created on 26 March 1981 and existed until 1988. It was founded by four senior Labour Party 'moderates', dubbed the 'Gang of Four': Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams...  whip in March.
16 June 1982	George Cunningham George Cunningham George Cunningham is a British politician.Cunningham was educated at Dunfermline High School, Blackpool Grammar School and the University of Manchester. He worked for the Labour Party as Commonwealth officer....
2 August 1982	Robert Mellish Bob Mellish, Baron Mellish Robert Joseph Mellish, Baron Mellish, PC was a British politician. He was a long-serving Labour Party MP and served as the Labour Chief Whip from 1969 until 1976 but in his later years he fell out with his local Constituency Labour Party which had become dominated by left-wingers, and eventually...	Dispute with local party.
10 February 1983	Michael O'Halloran Michael O'Halloran (UK politician) Michael Joseph O'Halloran was a British politician. He was brought up in County Clare, and, finding no employment, he "drifted to London" in 1948, aged 15, and worked as a railwayman until he entered politics....	Not selected as a candidate for the subsequent election.
1983–1987 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1983 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 49th Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 1983 general election, held on 9 June 1983...
31 January 1987	John Ryman John Ryman John Ryman QC is a former British Labour Party Member of Parliament who sat as an independent MP for his last year in the House of Commons.Ryman was a barrister and a fox-hunter...
1987–1992 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1987 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 50th Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 1987 general election, held on 11 June 1987...
19 May 1988	Ron Brown Ron Brown (Scottish politician) Ronald Duncan Mclaren Brown , known as Ron Brown and nicknamed Red Ron, was a Scottish Labour Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for the Edinburgh Leith constituency, from the 1979 general election to the 1992 general election...	Whip suspended until 19 August 1988 over misconduct.
14 March 1990	Dick Douglas Dick Douglas Richard Giles "Dick" Douglas is a former Scottish politician, having been a member of the British House of Commons firstly as a Labour Co-operative candidate, then latterly as a Scottish National Party member....	Opposed to party acquiescence in administering the Poll Tax Community Charge The Community Charge, popularly known as the "poll tax", was a system of taxation introduced in replacement of the rates to part fund local government in Scotland from 1989, and England and Wales from 1990. It provided for a single flat-rate per-capita tax on every adult, at a rate set by the... .
4 October 1990	Dick Douglas Dick Douglas Richard Giles "Dick" Douglas is a former Scottish politician, having been a member of the British House of Commons firstly as a Labour Co-operative candidate, then latterly as a Scottish National Party member....
25 September 1991	Dave Nellist Dave Nellist David John Nellist is a British Trotskyist activist and former Labour Member of Parliament for the now abolished constituency of Coventry South East...	Whip suspended over links to the Militant Tendency Militant Tendency The Militant tendency was an entrist group within the British Labour Party based around the Militant newspaper that was first published in 1964... .
25 September 1991	Terry Fields Terry Fields Terence Fields was a British trades unionist and Labour Member of Parliament for Liverpool Broadgreen. He was a supporter of the Militant tendency.-Early life:...	Whip suspended over links to the Militant Tendency Militant Tendency The Militant tendency was an entrist group within the British Labour Party based around the Militant newspaper that was first published in 1964... .
13 March 1992	John Browne John Browne (UK politician) John Ernest Douglas Delavalette Browne is a former British politician who is currently acting as a political and financial consultant in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA....	Whip removed for intention to stand against official candidate after he had been deselected.
1992–1997 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1992 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the 51st Parliament of the United Kingdom in the 1992 general election, held on 9 April 1992....
23 July 1993	Rupert Allason Rupert Allason Rupert William Simon Allason is a military historian and former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Member of Parliament for Torbay in Devon, from 1987 to 1997...	Whip suspended until 28 July 1994 after failing to back Conservative government in confidence motion.
29 November 1994	Sir Nicholas Budgen Nicholas Budgen Nicholas William Budgen , often called Nick Budgen, was a British Conservative Party politician.Named after St...	Whip suspended until 24 April 1995 after failing to back Conservative government in confidence motion.
29 November 1994	Michael Carttiss Michael Carttiss Michael Reginald Harry Carttiss is a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth from 1983 until his defeat in 1997 by Labour's Anthony Wright....	Whip suspended until 24 April 1995 after failing to back Conservative government in confidence motion.
29 November 1994	Christopher Gill	Whip suspended until 24 April 1995 after failing to back Conservative government in confidence motion.
29 November 1994	Teresa Gorman Teresa Gorman Teresa Ellen Gorman is a British politician, and was Conservative Member of Parliament for Billericay, in the county of Essex in England until 2001 when she stood down...	Whip suspended until 24 April 1995 after failing to back Conservative government in confidence motion.
29 November 1994	Antony Marlow Antony Marlow Antony Rivers Marlow , known as Tony Marlow, is a British Conservative former Member of Parliament .Born in Greenwich, London, Marlow gained Northampton North in the 1979 election, defeating Labour MP Maureen Colquhoun....	Whip suspended until 24 April 1995 after failing to back Conservative government in confidence motion.
29 November 1994	Richard Shepherd Richard Shepherd Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He is currently a Member of Parliament, having represented the constituency of Aldridge-Brownhills since 1979....	Whip suspended until 24 April 1995 after failing to back Conservative government in confidence motion.
29 November 1994	Sir Teddy Taylor Teddy Taylor Sir Edward MacMillan Taylor, usually known as Teddy Taylor , is a British Conservative Party politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1964 to 1979 for Glasgow Cathcart and from 1980 to 2005 for Rochford and Southend East.He was a leading member and sometime Vice-President of the Conservative...	Whip suspended until 24 April 1995 after failing to back Conservative government in confidence motion.
29 November 1994	John Wilkinson John Arbuthnot Du Cane Wilkinson John Arbuthnot Du Cane Wilkinson is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was educated at Eton College and Churchill College, Cambridge.-Electoral history:...	Whip suspended until 24 April 1995 after failing to back Conservative government in confidence motion.
29 November 1994	Sir Richard Body	Resigned whip in protest at the treatment of the eight MPs who abstained. Restored on 17 January 1996.
8 October 1995	Alan Howarth Alan Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport Alan Thomas Howarth, Baron Howarth of Newport, CBE, PC, is a British Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament from 1983 until 2005.-Early life:...
30 December 1995	Emma Nicholson Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne Emma Harriet Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne is a British politician. Formerly the Conservative then Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Torridge and West Devon she is a now life peer, and a former Liberal Democrat Member of the European Parliament for South East England.-Early...
24 February 1996	Peter Thurnham Peter Thurnham Peter Giles Thurnham was a British politician. He was Member of Parliament for Bolton North East from 1983 to 1997, originally as a Conservative before resigning to become an independent in February 1996 and then a Liberal Democrat in October 1996.-Biography:Thurnham was born in Staines, Middlesex...
12 October 1996	Peter Thurnham Peter Thurnham Peter Giles Thurnham was a British politician. He was Member of Parliament for Bolton North East from 1983 to 1997, originally as a Conservative before resigning to become an independent in February 1996 and then a Liberal Democrat in October 1996.-Biography:Thurnham was born in Staines, Middlesex...
8 March 1997	Sir George Gardiner George Gardiner (politician) Sir George Arthur Gardiner was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician and journalist.- Early life :...	Deselected by local Conservative association.
1997–2001 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1997 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons of the 52nd Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 1997 general election, held on 1 May 1997.The list is arranged by constituency...
21 November 1997	Peter Temple-Morris Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris is a British politician. He was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Leominster in 1974.-Early life:... 'One Nation Conservative'	Whip removed due to questioned commitment to the Party.
21 June 1998	Peter Temple-Morris Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris is a British politician. He was elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for Leominster in 1974.-Early life:... 'One Nation Conservative'
9 September 1998	Tommy Graham 'Scottish Labour'	Expelled from Party over misconduct.
26 March 1999	Dennis Canavan Dennis Canavan Dennis Andrew Canavan is a Scottish politician, and was an Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament for Falkirk West.-Early life:He was born in Cowdenbeath....	Expelled from Party after decision to stand for Scottish Parliament Scottish Parliament The Scottish Parliament is the devolved national, unicameral legislature of Scotland, located in the Holyrood area of the capital, Edinburgh. The Parliament, informally referred to as "Holyrood", is a democratically elected body comprising 129 members known as Members of the Scottish Parliament...  against official candidate.
18 December 1999	Shaun Woodward Shaun Woodward Shaun Anthony Woodward is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for St Helens South since 2001. He served in the Cabinet from 28 June 2007 to 11 May 2010 as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland...
6 March 2000	Ken Livingstone Ken Livingstone Kenneth Robert "Ken" Livingstone is an English politician who is currently a member of the centrist to centre-left Labour Party...	Expelled from Party after decision to stand for Mayor of London Mayor of London The Mayor of London is an elected politician who, along with the London Assembly of 25 members, is accountable for the strategic government of Greater London. Conservative Boris Johnson has held the position since 4 May 2008...  against official candidate.
11 April 2001	Charles Wardle Charles Wardle Charles Frederick Wardle was a Conservative Party member of the British Parliament for Bexhill and Battle.He announced he would not contest the 2001 election in early 2000 after it was disclosed that he was doing consultancy for Mohammed Al-Fayed. He was replaced by Gregory Barker in the 2001...	Whip removed after rumours of support for Independent candidate in forthcoming general election.
2001–2005 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 2001 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons at the 2001 general election, held on 7 June.The list is arranged by constituency. New MPs elected since the general election and changes in party allegiance are noted at the bottom of the page...
10 December 2001	Paul Marsden Paul Marsden Paul William Barry Marsden is a British writer, businessman and former politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury and Atcham from 1997 until 2005...	Left Labour over the war in Afghanistan. First Labour MP to join the Liberal Democrats since they were created.
2 October 2002	Andrew Hunter Andrew Hunter (British politician) Andrew Robert Frederick Ebenezer Hunter is a United Kingdom politician and a member of the Orange Order. He was Member of Parliament for Basingstoke from 1983 until 2005...	Resigned whip in order to ally with the Democratic Unionist Party Democratic Unionist Party The Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the...  in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west... .
23 June 2003	David Burnside David Burnside David Wilson Boyd Burnside is a Northern Ireland politician, and was Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament for South Antrim....	Resigned whip over opposition to the Belfast Agreement Belfast Agreement The Good Friday Agreement or Belfast Agreement , sometimes called the Stormont Agreement, was a major political development in the Northern Ireland peace process... . Accepted the whip back on 9 January 2004.
2 October 2003	Rev. Martin Smyth Martin Smyth Reverend William Martin Smyth is a Northern Irish unionist politician, and was Ulster Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Belfast South from 1982-2005...	Resigned whip over opposition to the Belfast Agreement Belfast Agreement The Good Friday Agreement or Belfast Agreement , sometimes called the Stormont Agreement, was a major political development in the Northern Ireland peace process... . Accepted the whip back on 9 January 2004.
2 October 2003	Jeffrey Donaldson Jeffrey Donaldson Jeffrey Mark Donaldson, MP is a Northern Irish politician and Member of Parliament for Lagan Valley belonging to the Democratic Unionist Party...	Resigned whip over opposition to the Belfast Agreement Belfast Agreement The Good Friday Agreement or Belfast Agreement , sometimes called the Stormont Agreement, was a major political development in the Northern Ireland peace process... . Later to the Democratic Unionist Party Democratic Unionist Party The Democratic Unionist Party is the larger of the two main unionist political parties in Northern Ireland. Founded by Ian Paisley and currently led by Peter Robinson, it is currently the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly and the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons of the...  whip.
23 October 2003	George Galloway George Galloway George Galloway is a British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster who was a Member of Parliament from 1987 to 2010. He was formerly an MP for the Labour Party, first for Glasgow Hillhead and later for Glasgow Kelvin, before his expulsion from the party in October 2003, the same year...	Expelled from Party. Formed Respect - The Unity Coalition on 25 January 2004.
5 January 2004	Jeffrey Donaldson Jeffrey Donaldson Jeffrey Mark Donaldson, MP is a Northern Irish politician and Member of Parliament for Lagan Valley belonging to the Democratic Unionist Party...
25 January 2004	Lady Ann Winterton Ann Winterton Jane Ann, Lady Winterton is a British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Congleton from 1983 to 2010...	Whip suspended until 31 March 2004 over misconduct.
10 December 2004	Andrew Hunter Andrew Hunter (British politician) Andrew Robert Frederick Ebenezer Hunter is a United Kingdom politician and a member of the Orange Order. He was Member of Parliament for Basingstoke from 1983 until 2005...
15 January 2005	Robert Jackson Robert V. Jackson Robert Victor Jackson is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1984 and Member of Parliament for Wantage from 1983 to 2005, having been elected as a Conservative; however, he joined the Labour Party in 2005.-Early life:He was raised in...	Disagreement with party over higher education funding.
3 February 2005	Jonathan Sayeed Jonathan Sayeed Jonathan Sayeed is a British politician who was a Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2005....	Whip suspended until 7 March 2005 over misconduct.
18 March 2005	Jonathan Sayeed Jonathan Sayeed Jonathan Sayeed is a British politician who was a Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2005....	Whip withdrawn over misconduct.
25 March 2005	Howard Flight Howard Flight Howard Emerson Flight, Baron Flight is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom and a member of the House of Lords. He was Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs from 1997 to 2005...	Whip withdrawn over controversial policy remarks.
6 April 2005	Paul Marsden Paul Marsden Paul William Barry Marsden is a British writer, businessman and former politician. He was the Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury and Atcham from 1997 until 2005...	Declared support for Labour Party to win the impending general election.
2005–2010 Parliament MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 2005 This is a list of Members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom at the 2005 general election, held on 5 May 2005.The list is arranged by constituency...
20 October 2006	Clare Short Clare Short Clare Short is a British politician, and a member of the Labour Party. She was the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood from 1983 to 2010; for most of this period she was a Labour Party MP, but she resigned the party whip in 2006 and served the remainder of her term as an Independent. She...	Resigned whip. Declared support for a hung parliament Hung parliament In a two-party parliamentary system of government, a hung parliament occurs when neither major political party has an absolute majority of seats in the parliament . It is also less commonly known as a balanced parliament or a legislature under no overall control...  at the next election.
26 June 2007	Quentin Davies Quentin Davies John Quentin Davies, Baron Davies of Stamford is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Grantham and Stamford from 1987 to 2010. Originally elected as a Conservative, he defected to Labour on 26 June 2007. Davies announced in 2010 that he would not stand for...	Defected. Criticised the direction of the Conservative Party under leadership of David Cameron David Cameron David William Donald Cameron is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. Cameron represents Witney as its Member of Parliament .... .
25 September 2007	Andrew Pelling Andrew Pelling Andrew John Pelling is a British politician. First elected as a Conservative he was an independent Member of Parliament for Croydon Central and on 30 March 2010 announced his intention to contest the seat as an Independent at the 2010 general election, but lost the seat to his former party...	Whip suspended pending the conclusion of an investigation into the accusations he assaulted his wife. After sitting as an 'Independent Conservative' for some time, he severed links with the party in October 2008 and designated himself as Independent only.
November 2007	Robert Wareing	Resigned whip after failing in a bid for reselection. Initially declared he would stand as an Independent candidate.
29 January 2008	Derek Conway Derek Conway Derek Leslie Conway TD is an English politician and television presenter. A member of the centre-right Conservative Party, Conway served as a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Old Bexley and Sidcup from 2001 to 2010....	Whip suspended pending the conclusion of an investigation into the accusations he misused his Parliamentary Allowances.
12 March 2008	Bob Spink Bob Spink Robert Michael Spink is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Castle Point in Essex in 1992, lost his seat in 1997, but regained it in 2001...	Whip suspended after he had threatened to resign the party whip due to dispute with local party.
22 April 2008	Bob Spink Bob Spink Robert Michael Spink is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Castle Point in Essex in 1992, lost his seat in 1997, but regained it in 2001...	Having previously had whip suspended, Spink apparently joined United Kingdom Independence Party United Kingdom Independence Party The United Kingdom Independence Party is a eurosceptic and right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. Whilst its primary goal is the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, the party has expanded beyond its single-issue image to develop a more comprehensive party platform.UKIP...  (UKIP) on 22 April 2008, thus becoming that party's first MP.
Unknown, before April 2009	Bob Spink Bob Spink Robert Michael Spink is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was elected as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Castle Point in Essex in 1992, lost his seat in 1997, but regained it in 2001...	In Spring 2009, there was confusion when Spink noted to a local newspaper that he did not regard himself as a UKIP MP (despite being listed as such on the party's website. UKIP, when asked for comment, noted that Spink had not formally paid for membership of UKIP, and from 19 May 2009, their website no longer claimed Bob Spink as a UKIP MP.
9 January 2010	Iris Robinson Iris Robinson Iris Robinson is a former Northern Ireland Unionist politician. She is married to Peter Robinson, who is currently the First Minister in the Northern Ireland Assembly....	Was expelled from the DUP and subsequently stood down as an MP on the 13th
8 February 2010	David Chaytor David Chaytor David Michael Chaytor is a former British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Bury North from 1997 to 2010. He was the first member of Parliament to be sentenced following the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009.On 2 June 2009, he announced that he...	Whip suspended over the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal triggered by the leak and subsequent publication by the Telegraph Group in 2009 of expense claims made by members of the United Kingdom Parliament over several years...  after criminal charges of false accounting were brought.
8 February 2010	Jim Devine Jim Devine James "Jim" Devine is a former British Member of Parliament, having been the Labour Party member for Livingston from 2005 until 2010 and Chairman of the Scottish Labour Party between 1994-95....	Whip suspended over the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal triggered by the leak and subsequent publication by the Telegraph Group in 2009 of expense claims made by members of the United Kingdom Parliament over several years...  after criminal charges of false accounting were brought.
8 February 2010	Elliot Morley Elliot Morley Elliot Anthony Morley is a former Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Glanford and Scunthorpe from 1987 to 1997 and then Scunthorpe from 1997 to 2010. In 2009, he was accused by The Daily Telegraph of continuing to claim parliamentary expenses for a mortgage that had...	Whip suspended over the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal triggered by the leak and subsequent publication by the Telegraph Group in 2009 of expense claims made by members of the United Kingdom Parliament over several years...  after criminal charges of false accounting were brought.
25 March 2010	Sylvia, Lady Hermon Sylvia Hermon Sylvia Eileen Hermon, Lady Hermon is a Northern Irish politician. Since 2001, she has been the Member of Parliament for the constituency of North Down, first elected for the Ulster Unionist Party , but now an independent...	Resigned from party to fight for re-election as an Independent in opposition to the electoral pact between the Ulster Unionists and the Conservative Party.
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19 May 2010	Eric Illsley Eric Illsley Eric Evlyn Illsley is a former British politician who was the Member of Parliament for Barnsley Central from 1987 until 2011. He was a Labour Party representative until suspended from the party after being charged with false accounting as part of the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal,...	Whip suspended over the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal triggered by the leak and subsequent publication by the Telegraph Group in 2009 of expense claims made by members of the United Kingdom Parliament over several years...  after criminal charges of false accounting were brought.
14 October 2010	Dr Denis MacShane Denis MacShane Denis MacShane is a British politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Rotherham since the 1994 by-election and served as the Minister for Europe from 2002 until 2005, as well as being a current Policy Council member for Labour Friends of Israel.On 14 October 2010, it was announced...	Whip suspended over the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal triggered by the leak and subsequent publication by the Telegraph Group in 2009 of expense claims made by members of the United Kingdom Parliament over several years...

List of Members of the House of Lords who have crossed the floor

Date	Member	Before		After		Notes
1700–2010 House of Lords The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
1703	John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll Field Marshal John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, 1st Duke of Greenwich KG , known as Iain Ruaidh nan Cath or Red John of the Battles, was a Scottish soldier and nobleman.-Early Life:...	Critic of the Tories.
1710	Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers PC was the second son of Thomas, 3rd Earl; and after the death about 1680 of his elder brother Thomas, styled Viscount Colchester, he was designated by that title until he succeeded to the peerage....
1711	John Ashburnham, 1st Earl of Ashburnham John Ashburnham, 1st Earl of Ashburnham John Ashburnham, 1st Earl of Ashburnham was a British peer.-Career:Ashburnham was the second son of John Ashburnham, 1st Baron Ashburnham and his wife, Bridget, daughter of Walter Vaughan from Brecon, south Wales, who had inherited Pembrey...
1783	Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel Admiral Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel PC was an officer of the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War and the War of American Independence...	Resigning as a protest against the Peace of Paris Treaty of Paris (1783) The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on the one hand and the United States of America and its allies on the other. The other combatant nations, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic had separate agreements; for details of...
1793	William Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam William FitzWilliam, 4th Earl FitzWilliam William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam PC , styled Viscount Milton until 1756, was a British Whig statesman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1782 he inherited his uncle Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham's estates, making him one of the richest people in...
1793	William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, KG, PC was a British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Prime Minister. He was known before 1762 by the courtesy title Marquess of Titchfield. He held a title of every degree of British nobility—Duke,...
1794	William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, KG, PC was a British Whig and Tory statesman, Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Prime Minister. He was known before 1762 by the courtesy title Marquess of Titchfield. He held a title of every degree of British nobility—Duke,...
1794	Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, KG, KT, PC was a British diplomat and the son of Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle and his second wife Isabella Byron....
1801	Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester PC, PC , FRS , styled The Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1768 until 1783, The Right Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1783 to 1801, and then known as Lord Pelham until 1805, was a British Whig politician...
1802	Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough PC KC was an English judge. After serving as a Member of Parliament and Attorney General, he became Lord Chief Justice.-Early life:...
1812	George James Cholmondeley, 4th Earl of Cholmondeley George Cholmondeley, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley George James Cholmondeley, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley KG, GCH, PC , styled Viscount Malpas between 1764 and 1770 and known as The Earl of Cholmondeley between 1770 and 1815, was a British peer and politician.-Background and education:...
1830	Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde Ulick de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde Ulick John de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde KP, PC , styled Lord Dunkellin until 1808 and known as The Earl of Clanricarde between 1808 and 1825, was a British Whig politician.-Background and education:...
1834	Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham Francis Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham General Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, 2nd Marquess Conyngham KP, GCH, PC , styled Lord Francis Conyngham between 1816 and 1824 and Earl of Mount Charles between 1824 and 1832, was a British soldier, courtier and politician.-Background and education:Born in Dublin, Conyngham was the second son of...
1834	Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and 5th Duke of Lennox KG, PC , styled Earl of March until in 1819, was a British soldier, politician and a prominent Conservative.-Background and education:...	Resigned as Postmaster General United Kingdom Postmaster General The Postmaster General of the United Kingdom is a defunct Cabinet-level ministerial position in HM Government. Aside from maintaining the postal system, the Telegraph Act of 1868 established the Postmaster General's right to exclusively maintain electric telegraphs...
1834	Frederick Robinson, 1st Earl of Ripon	Resigned as Lord Privy Seal Lord Privy Seal The Lord Privy Seal is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord President of the Council and above the Lord Great Chamberlain. The office is one of the traditional sinecure offices of state...
1846	Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans GCB , DL, LL.D, PC , styled Lord Elliot from 1823 to 1845, was a British politician and diplomat.-Background and education:...
1884	Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland Lawrence Dundas, 1st Marquess of Zetland, KT, PC , known as Lawrence Dundas until 1873 and as the Earl of Zetland from 1873 to 1892, was a British Conservative politician and statesman. He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland between 1889 and 1892.-Background, education and military service:Zetland was...
1886	Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby KG, PC, FRS , known as Lord Stanley from 1844 to 1869, was a British statesman...
1886	Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough Charles Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough Charles Alfred Worsley Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough KG, PC , styled Lord Worsley until 1875, was a British peer and politician...
1886	Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire KG, GCVO, PC, PC , styled Lord Cavendish of Keighley between 1834 and 1858 and Marquess of Hartington between 1858 and 1891, was a British statesman...
1886	Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford Francis Charles Hastings Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford KG was an English politician and agriculturalist.-Life:...
1886	Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, 2nd Baron Clermont and 1st Baron Carlingford KP, PC , known as Chichester Fortescue until 1863 and as Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue between 1863 and 1874, Lord Carlingford from 1874 to 1887 and Lord Clermont after 1887, was a British statesman and Liberal...
1886	Richard de Aquila Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge Richard Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge Richard de Aquila Grosvenor, 1st Baron Stalbridge PC , styled Lord Richard Grosvenor between 1845 and 1886, was a British politician and businessman. Initially a Liberal, he served under William Ewart Gladstone as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household between 1872 and 1874 and as Parliamentary...
1886	Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook PC, GCSI, FRS , was a British Liberal politician and statesman...
1886	Edward Hyde Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon Edward Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon Edward Hyde Villiers, 5th Earl of Clarendon PC , styled Lord Hyde between 1846 and 1870, was a British Liberal Unionist politician...
1886	Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster KG, PC, JP , styled Viscount Belgrave between 1831 and 1845 and Earl Grosvenor between 1845 and 1869 and known as the 3rd Marquess of Westminster between 1869 and 1874, was an English landowner, politician and racehorse owner.He inherited the estate of...
1886	Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford Francis Charles Hastings Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford KG was an English politician and agriculturalist.-Life:...
1886	Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne PC , was a British lawyer and politician. He served twice as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.-Background and education:...
1886	Albert Parker, 3rd Earl of Morley Albert Parker, 3rd Earl of Morley Albert Edmund Parker, 3rd Earl of Morley PC, DL, JP , styled Viscount Boringdon until 1864, was a British peer and Liberal, later Liberal Unionist politician.-Background and education:...
1886	George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll KG, KT, PC, FRS, FRSE , styled Marquess of Lorne until 1847, was a Scottish peer, Liberal politician as well as a writer on science, religion, and the politics of the 19th century.-Background:Argyll was born at Ardencaple Castle, Dunbartonshire, the...
1895	Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC was a British politician and Irish peer who served successively as the fifth Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...
1902	Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire KG, GCVO, PC, PC , styled Lord Cavendish of Keighley between 1834 and 1858 and Marquess of Hartington between 1858 and 1891, was a British statesman...
1905	Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC was a British politician and Irish peer who served successively as the fifth Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...
1920	John Wodehouse, 2nd Earl of Kimberley John Wodehouse, 2nd Earl of Kimberley John Wodehouse, 2nd Earl of Kimberley , known as Lord Wodehouse from 1866 to 1902, was a British peer and landowner, who was the first member of the Labour Party in the House of Lords....	First Labour Peer
1945	Frederick James Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton
1947	Charles Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot Charles Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot Charles Iain Kerr, 1st Baron Teviot DSO, MC was a British politician.Kerr was the son of Charles Wyndham Rodolph Kerr and the great-grandson of William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian. His mother was Anna Maria Olivia, daughter of Admiral Sir George Elliot...
1959	David Rees Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore David Rees Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore, PC, TD was a Welsh politician.Rees-Williams was born in Bridgend, Wales. He qualified as a solicitor in 1929 and married and had three children...	Former Labour MP and Minister
1975	Alan Mais, Baron Mais Alan Mais, Baron Mais Alan Raymond Mais, Baron Mais, GBE, TD, ERD, JP was a British peer and former Lord Mayor of the City of London between 1972 and 1973....
1979	Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham CBE PC was an English trade unionist, Labour politician and industrialist...	In later life became aligned with the Conservatives after becoming unhappy with how left wing the Labour Party was heading.
1979	Alun Jones, Baron Chalfont Alun Jones, Baron Chalfont Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, OBE, MC, PC is a British politician.Jones was educated at West Monmouth School, and subsequently at the School of Slavonic Studies in the University of London. He was a Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1964 to 1970 and appointed to the...
1979	Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh Richard William Marsh, Baron Marsh PC was an English politician and business executive.Marsh was educated at Woolwich Polytechnic and was elected as Labour Party Member of Parliament for Greenwich at the 1959 general election...
1981	George Brown, Baron George-Brown George Brown, Baron George-Brown George Alfred Brown, Baron George-Brown, PC was a British Labour politician, who served as the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1960 to 1970, and served in a number of positions in the Cabinet, most notably as Foreign Secretary, in the Labour Government of the 1960s...
1981	Elaine Burton, Baroness Burton of Coventry Elaine Burton, Baroness Burton of Coventry Elaine Frances Burton, Baroness Burton of Coventry was a politician in the United Kingdom.Burton stood twice to become a Member of Parliament, before being elected on her third candidacy...
1981	John Diamond, Baron Diamond John Diamond, Baron Diamond John Diamond, Baron Diamond, PC , also known as Jack Diamond, was a British Labour Party politician....	Rejoined Labour in 1995
1981	Walter Perry, Baron Perry of Walton Walter Perry Walter Laing MacDonald Perry, Baron Perry of Walton FRS FRCP FRSE was a distinguished academic. He was the first Vice Chancellor of the Open University....
1982	John Edward Poynder Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham John Grigg (writer) John Edward Poynder Grigg was a British writer, historian and politician. He was the 2nd Baron Altrincham from 1955 until he disclaimed that title under the Peerage Act on the day it received the Royal Assent in 1963.-Early years:John Grigg was the son of Edward Grigg, a Times journalist...
1982	Wayland Hilton Young, 2nd Baron Kennet
1982	Martin Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee Martin Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee Martin Richard Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee was a British politician, son of former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, the first Earl Attlee. Martin inherited the title on his father's death in 1967...
1982	Herbert Bowden, Baron Aylestone Herbert Bowden Herbert William Bowden, Baron Aylestone, CH CBE PC was a British Labour politician.Born in Cardiff, Wales, Bowden was a councillor on Leicester City Council 1938–45 and president of Leicester Labour Party in 1938. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II...
1982	Phyllis Stedman, Baroness Stedman Phyllis Stedman Phyllis Stedman, Baroness Stedman was a British politician who briefly served as a minister.Born Phyllis Adams in Peterborough, Stedman attended Peterborough County Grammar School, then worked as a librarian in her home town, and served in the National Fire Service in Derbyshire during World War II...
1982	George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, KT, PC, DL, FRSE, was a journalist and British politician belonging to the Labour Party. In the 1980s, he joined the Social Democratic Party. Following the SDP's merger with the Liberal Party, he became a Liberal Democrat and sat as a Liberal...
1982	Henry Wilson, Baron Wilson of Langside
1988	Phyllis Stedman, Baroness Stedman Phyllis Stedman Phyllis Stedman, Baroness Stedman was a British politician who briefly served as a minister.Born Phyllis Adams in Peterborough, Stedman attended Peterborough County Grammar School, then worked as a librarian in her home town, and served in the National Fire Service in Derbyshire during World War II...	Opposed the SDPs merger with the Liberals and so created the Social Democratic Party (UK, 1988) Social Democratic Party (UK, 1988) A Social Democratic Party was formed in the United Kingdom in 1981 by a group of dissident Labour Party Members of Parliament : Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, who became known as the "Gang of Four"....
1992	Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Robert Jacob Alexander, Baron Skidelsky FBA is a British economic historian of Russian origin and the author of an award-winning major three volume biography of John Maynard Keynes. He read history at Jesus College, Oxford...	Left the Conservatives in 2001
1997	David Alton, Baron Alton of Liverpool David Alton, Baron Alton of Liverpool David Patrick Paul Alton, Baron Alton of Liverpool is a British politician. He is a former Liberal Party and later Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament who now sits as cross bench member of the House of Lords. He was made a Life peer as Baron Alton of Liverpool, of Mossley Hill in the County of...	Was unhappy with the pro-choice stance of certain colleagues
1997	John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee John Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee is a British peer, a member of the House of Lords and the grandson of Clement Attlee, the British Labour Prime Minister, who was 1st Earl Attlee. He is a trustee of the Attlee Foundation....	Grandson of Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee Clement Attlee Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955...
1999	Baron Beaumont of Whitley Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley Timothy Wentworth Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley was a United Kingdom politician and an Anglican clergyman. He was politically active, successively, in the Liberal Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party...	The Green Party Green Party of England and Wales The Green Party of England and Wales is a political party in England and Wales which follows the traditions of Green politics and maintains a strong commitment to social progressivism. It is the largest Green party in the United Kingdom, containing within it various regional divisions including... 's only peer to date.
2000	Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone Barbara Scott Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone sits on the cross benches in the House of Lords. She was created a life peer in 1997 as Baroness Young of Old Scone, of Old Scone in Perth and Kinross....	Became a crossbencher after taking up an appointment as Chief Executive of Environment Agency Environment Agency The Environment Agency is a British non-departmental public body of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and an Assembly Government Sponsored Body of the Welsh Assembly Government that serves England and Wales.-Purpose:...
2000	Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare	Expelled from party and jailed for perjury Perjury Perjury, also known as forswearing, is the willful act of swearing a false oath or affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to a judicial proceeding. That is, the witness falsely promises to tell the truth about matters which affect the outcome of the...  and perverting the course of justice Perverting the course of justice Perverting the course of justice, in English, Canadian , and Irish law, is a criminal offence in which someone prevents justice from being served on himself or on another party... .
2002	Lord Stoddart of Swindon David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon David Leonard Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon is a British independent Labour politician .-Political career:...	Expelled for backing a Socialist Alliance Socialist Alliance Socialist Alliance may refer to:*Alternative Socialist Alliance - Independents *Democratic Socialist Alliance *London Socialist Alliance*Scottish Socialist Alliance*Socialist Alliance *Socialist Alliance...  candidate instead of Labour
30 May 2004	Lord Pearson of Rannoch	Expelled from Party for backing UKIP
30 May 2004	Baron Willoughby de Broke	Expelled from Party for backing UKIP
30 May 2004	Lord Stevens of Ludgate David Robert Stevens, Baron Stevens of Ludgate David Robert Stevens, Baron Stevens of Ludgate is the only Conservative Independent peer in the House of Lords. He received a life peerage in 1987...	Expelled from Party for backing UKIP
30 May 2004	Baroness Cox	Expelled from Party for backing UKIP
23 September 2005	Lord Haskins	Expelled for donating £2,500 to Lib-Dems
2005	Baron Watson of Invergowrie Mike Watson Michael Goodall Watson, Baron Watson of Invergowrie, known as Mike Watson, is a former British Labour Party politician...	Expelled from the Party after causing a fire and resigned
2007	Lord Black of Crossharbour Conrad Black Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, OC, KCSG, PC is a Canadian-born member of the British House of Lords, and a historian, columnist and publisher, who was for a time the third largest newspaper magnate in the world. Lord Black controlled Hollinger International, Inc...	Expelled from the party and convicted of fraud Fraud In criminal law, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation...  in a US court in 2007 and sentenced to six and a half years' imprisonment.
7 January 2007	Lord Pearson of Rannoch	Joined UKIP
7 January 2007	Baron Willoughby de Broke	Joined UKIP
25 February 2009	Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed is a member of the House of Lords, having become the United Kingdom's first Muslim life peer in 1998. Many of his political activities relate to the Islamic community both in the UK and abroad, and he has often attracted controversy...	Expelled from Party after conviction for dangerous driving. First Muslim Peer.
20 May 2009	Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn is a former Labour member of the House of Lords. He is notable for being one of the first peers suspended from the House of Lords since the 17th century.-Biography:Thomas Taylor was born in 1926....	Whip withdrawn and suspended from party over Cash for Influence Cash for Influence Cash for Influence is the name given by some in the media to a political scandal in the United Kingdom in 2009 concerning four Labour Party Life Peers offering to help make amendments to legislation for up to £120,000... . First Peers suspended from the House of Lords since the 17th Century.
20 May 2009	Lord Truscott	Whip withdrawn and suspended from party over Cash for Influence Cash for Influence Cash for Influence is the name given by some in the media to a political scandal in the United Kingdom in 2009 concerning four Labour Party Life Peers offering to help make amendments to legislation for up to £120,000...  and later quit party. First Peers suspended from the House of Lords since the 17th Century.
5 February 2010	Lord Hanningfield Paul White, Baron Hanningfield Paul Edward Winston White, Baron Hanningfield DL is a member of the House of Lords and was a British Conservative Party politician until early 2010, when the whip was withdrawn from him as a result of investigations into his criminal behaviour in relation to his Parliamentary expenses claims...	He stepped down from his frontbench Frontbencher In many parliaments and other similar assemblies, seating is typically arranged in banks or rows, with each political party or caucus grouped together. The spokespeople for each group will often sit at the front of their group, and are then known as being on the frontbench and are described as...  role and has been charged with two alleged offences under section 17 of the Theft Act 1968 Theft Act 1968 The Theft Act 1968 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It creates a number of offences against property in England and Wales.On 15 January 2007 the Fraud Act 2006 came into force, redefining most of the offences of deception.-History:...  ("false accounting"). Court date set as December 13, 2010. This is due to United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal triggered by the leak and subsequent publication by the Telegraph Group in 2009 of expense claims made by members of the United Kingdom Parliament over several years...
16 July 2010	John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick John David Beckett, Baron Taylor of Warwick is a British member of the House of Lords who became the first black Conservative peer in 1996, after unsuccessfully standing as their parliamentary candidate in Cheltenham in the 1992 general election. Taylor initially practised as a barrister and has...	Resigned from party and has been charged with six counts of false accounting and will appear before a Westminster magistrates’ court in August 2010. This is due to United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal triggered by the leak and subsequent publication by the Telegraph Group in 2009 of expense claims made by members of the United Kingdom Parliament over several years...
18 October 2010	Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin Manzila Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin is a British Labour politician, and community activist.-Background:Uddin was born in a village in Bangladesh. She moved with her parents to the United Kingdom in 1973, when she was 13 years of age, and she grew up in the East End of London...	Told repay £125,349 as well as being suspended from Parliament until the end of the present session of Parliament. This is due to United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal triggered by the leak and subsequent publication by the Telegraph Group in 2009 of expense claims made by members of the United Kingdom Parliament over several years... . First Muslim Female Peer.
18 October 2010	Swraj Paul, Baron Paul	Told paid back £41,982 as well as being suspended from Parliament for four months. This is due to United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal triggered by the leak and subsequent publication by the Telegraph Group in 2009 of expense claims made by members of the United Kingdom Parliament over several years... . Resigned from the party. One of the First Hindu Peers.
18 October 2010	Amir Bhatia, Baron Bhatia Amir Bhatia, Baron Bhatia Amirali Alibhai "Amir" Bhatia, Baron Bhatia, OBE is a British businessman and politician.An Ismaili Muslim born in East Africa, Bhatia was educated in schools in Tanzania and India. He is married to Nurnamu Amersi and has three daughters. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1972.Bhatia was Chairman...	Told paid back £27,446 as well as being suspended from Parliament for eight months. This is due to United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal The United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal was a major political scandal triggered by the leak and subsequent publication by the Telegraph Group in 2009 of expense claims made by members of the United Kingdom Parliament over several years... . Labour Party Donor.
6 February 2011	Anthony Jacobs, Baron Jacobs Anthony Jacobs, Baron Jacobs David Anthony Jacobs, Baron Jacobs, known as Anthony Jacobs is a British businessman and an Independent politician...	Due to opposition to parties policies on taxation.

List of Members of the European Parliament who have crossed the floor

Date	Member	Before		After		Notes
1979–1984 Parliament
1984	Michael Gallagher Michael Gallagher (British politician) Michael Gallagher is a British miner, politician and software development company executive. He was the only Member of the European Parliament to have been a member of the Social Democratic Party, when he left the Labour Party in 1984....	He was the Social Democrats only MEP
1994–1999 Parliament
1997	Ken Coates Ken Coates Kenneth Sidney Coates was a British politician and writer. He chaired the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation and edited The Spokesman, the BRPF magazine launched in March 1970. He was a Labour Party Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1999...	Expelled from the Labour Party
1997	Hugh Kerr Hugh Kerr Hugh Kerr is a Scottish politician and a former lecturer in social policy at the University of East London...	Expelled from the Labour Party
1998	James Moorhouse James Moorhouse (politician) Cecil James Olaf Moorhouse is a British politician and former Member of the European Parliament.He was educated at St Paul's School, London, King's College London and Imperial College London where here took a diploma in advanced aeronautics...	Defects after being de-selected
1998	Brendan Donnelly Brendan Donnelly (politician) Brendan Patrick Donnelly is a pro-European Union British politician.Donnelly was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in Sussex South and Crawley at the European Parliament election, 1994 for the Conservative Party...	Later joined the Lib-Dems
1998	John Stevens John Stevens (politician) John Christopher Courtenay Stevens is an English politician. A Conservative Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1999, he contested the Buckingham constituency in the 2010 general election as an independent, against Commons speaker John Bercow.-Background:Stevens was educated at...	Later joined the Lib-Dems
1999–2004 Parliament
2000	Michael Holmes Michael Holmes Michael Holmes is an Australian anchor and correspondent for CNN International. He attended Wesley College, Perth from 1973-77. Holmes began his career at the Daily News newspaper in Perth. Prior to his work at CNN, he was a reporter for more than a decade for Australia's Nine Network in Perth,...	Resigned from party
2000	Bill Newton Dunn Bill Newton Dunn William "Bill" Newton Dunn is a British politician. He is a Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands for the Liberal Democrats.-Early life:...	Felt that the Conservatives were increasingly negative towards the prospect of Britain playing a leading role in Europe
2002	Richard Balfe Richard Balfe -Early life:Born in Barton Mills, Mildenhall, Suffolk, Balfe spent time in a children's home in Sheffield. He began working in a bakery in 1960 and joined USDAW...	Had been expelled from the Labour Party for standing for the post of quaestor Quaestor A Quaestor was a type of public official in the "Cursus honorum" system who supervised financial affairs. In the Roman Republic a quaestor was an elected official whereas, with the autocratic government of the Roman Empire, quaestors were simply appointed....
2004–2009 Parliament
2004	Robert Kilroy-Silk Robert Kilroy-Silk Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk is an English former politician, former independent Member of the European Parliament, and former television presenter, best known for his daytime talk show Kilroy. He has been a university lecturer and Labour Party Member of Parliament...	Created new party
2004	Ashley Mote Ashley Mote Ashley Mote was a non-inscrit Member of the European Parliament for South East England. An outspoken critic of fraud in the European Institutions, he himself was convicted of benefit fraud in 2007 for which he served a nine-month prison sentence and was described by the trial judge as "a truly...	Expelled whilst pending fraud trial
2007	Jim Allister Jim Allister James Hugh "Jim" Allister, QC is a Northern Ireland Unionist politician and senior barrister. He is the leader of the Traditional Unionist Voice political party, serving as MLA in the Northern Ireland Assembly, where he represents Antrim North.He was formerly a member of the Democratic Unionist...
2007	Sajjad Karim Sajjad Karim Sajjad Haider Karim also known as Saj is a Member of the European Parliament for North West England.Karim was the first British Muslim elected to the European Parliament on 4 June 2004. He was re-elected in June 2009.-Early life:...	First Muslim MEP
2008	Den Dover Den Dover Densmore Ronald Dover, known as Den Dover, is a British politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region from 1999 to 2009....	Expelled from the Conservatives
2009–2014 Parliament European Parliament election, 2009 (United Kingdom) The European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2009 European Parliament election, the voting for which was held on Thursday 4 June 2009, coinciding with the 2009 local elections in England. Most of the results of the election were announced on Sunday 7 June, after...
September 2010	Edward McMillan-Scott Edward McMillan-Scott Edward Hugh Christian McMillan-Scott is a British Member of the European Parliament and one of the Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament...	Expelled from the Conservatives
January 2010	Nikki Sinclaire Nikki Sinclaire Nicole Sinclaire is a European politician from the United Kingdom and is a current MEP.Educated at the University of Canterbury graduating with a Bachelor of Laws qualification. Sinclaire has worked for Lloyds as a 'problem troubleshooter' was employed as a Gateway store manager and worked in...	Expelled from UKIP
March 2010	Edward McMillan-Scott Edward McMillan-Scott Edward Hugh Christian McMillan-Scott is a British Member of the European Parliament and one of the Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament...
May 2011	David Campbell Bannerman

List of London Assembly Members who have crossed the floor

Date	Member	Before		After		Notes
2004–2008 Assembly London Assembly election, 2004 An election to the Assembly of London took place on 10 June 2004, along with the London mayoral election, 2004.The Assembly is elected by the Additional Member System. There are fourteen directly elected constituencies, nine of which were won by the Conservatives and five by the Labour Party...
September 2005	Damian Hockney Damian Hockney Damian Hockney is a British politician and the leader of the One London Party. He was a London Assembly member and a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority from 2004 to 2008.-Political background:...	First joined Veritas Veritas (political party) Veritas is a political party in the United Kingdom, formed in February 2005 at Hinckley golf club by politician-celebrity Robert Kilroy-Silk following a split from the United Kingdom Independence Party . Kilroy-Silk served as party leader from formation, through the 2005 General Election, until...  then created new party One London One London One London was a small British political party formed on September 1, 2005 by Damian Hockney and Peter Hulme-Cross. Both of them were originally elected to the London Assembly in June 2004 as United Kingdom Independence Party representatives, but in February 2005 announced the formation of the...
September 2005	Peter Hulme-Cross Peter Hulme-Cross Peter Hulme-Cross is a politician in the United Kingdom and a former One London Party Member of the London Assembly. He was also a member of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority....	First joined Veritas Veritas (political party) Veritas is a political party in the United Kingdom, formed in February 2005 at Hinckley golf club by politician-celebrity Robert Kilroy-Silk following a split from the United Kingdom Independence Party . Kilroy-Silk served as party leader from formation, through the 2005 General Election, until...  then created new party One London One London One London was a small British political party formed on September 1, 2005 by Damian Hockney and Peter Hulme-Cross. Both of them were originally elected to the London Assembly in June 2004 as United Kingdom Independence Party representatives, but in February 2005 announced the formation of the...
2008–2012 Assembly London Assembly election, 2008 An election to the Assembly of London took place on 1 May 2008, along with the London mayoral election, 2008. The Conservatives gained 2 seats, Labour gained one seat, the Liberal Democrats lost two seats, and United Kingdom Independence Party or One London as they became were wiped out...
2010	Richard Barnbrook Richard Barnbrook Richard John Barnbrook is a British politician and member of the London Assembly. Having been elected as a British National Party candidate, he resigned the BNP whip in August 2010. Barnbrook was a councillor, and leader , then deputy leader , of the BNP group on Barking and Dagenham London...	Expelled from the BNP, now sits as an independent

List of Members of the Welsh Assembly who have crossed the floor

Date	Member	Before		After		Notes
2003–2007 Assembly
2005	Peter Law Peter Law Peter John Law was a Welsh politician.- Labour Co-operative AM and Independent MP :For most of his career Law sat as a Labour Councillor and subsequently Labour Co-operative Assembly Member for Blaenau Gwent...	Left party in protest at the use of all-woman shortlists
2007–2011 Assembly National Assembly for Wales election, 2007 The 2007 National Assembly election was held on Thursday 3 May 2007 to elect members to the National Assembly for Wales. It was the third general election. On the same day local elections in England and Scotland, and the Scottish Parliament election took place...
2009	Mohammad Asghar Mohammad Asghar Mohammad Asghar , known as Oscar, is an Asian politician, who has been a member of the Conservative party, the Labour party, and Plaid Cymru. He came to prominence after being elected to the Welsh Assembly in 2007 as a member of Plaid Cymru on the list for South Wales East...	Explained that he was a "Unionist Unionist -United Kingdom:In the United Kingdom, British unionists are those people and political organisations who wish their area to remain or become part of the United Kingdom... " and against Welsh independence Welsh independence Welsh independence is a political ideal advocated by some people in Wales that would see Wales secede from the United Kingdom and become an independent sovereign state. This ideology is promoted mainly by the Welsh nationalist party, Plaid Cymru.-History:... , First AM to defect and first ethnic minority and Muslim member of the Assembly also Wales' first Muslim Councillor
2010	Mick Bates Mick Bates (politician) Mick Bates is an Independent Liberal Democrat politician. He was Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Montgomeryshire between 1999 and 2011.-Background:...	Suspended after it was found out he will be prosecuted for assault

List of Members of the Scottish Parliament who have crossed the floor

Date	Member	Before		After		Notes
1999–2003 Parliament
2002	Dorothy-Grace Elder Dorothy-Grace Elder Dorothy-Grace Elder is a journalist and a former Member of the Scottish Parliament.She first came to the public eye in the 1970s as a television journalist, on BBC Scotland's news programme Reporting Scotland...	Left the party and sat as an independent
2003	Margo Macdonald Margo MacDonald Margo MacDonald MSP is a Scottish politician and former Scottish National Party MP and Deputy Leader...	Ranked low on the party list for re-election so stood as an independent and was expelled from party; re-elected as an independent
2003–2007 Parliament
2004	Campbell Martin	Expelled from party and stood as an independent
2005	Mike Watson, Baron Watson of Invergowrie Mike Watson Michael Goodall Watson, Baron Watson of Invergowrie, known as Mike Watson, is a former British Labour Party politician...	Expelled from the Party after causing a fire and resigned
2005	Brian Monteith Brian Monteith Brian Monteith is a Scottish public relations consultant, politician and commentator, who was a Conservative Member of the Scottish Parliament between 1999 and 2007.-Education:...	Had whip withdrawn over misconduct
2006	Rosemary Byrne Rosemary Byrne Rosemary Byrne is a Scottish political figure. She was a co-convenor of Solidarity and a former Member of the Scottish Parliament for the South of Scotland...	Created new Party Solidarity Solidarity (Scotland) Solidarity is a political party in Scotland, launched on September 3, 2006 as a breakaway from the Scottish Socialist Party in the aftermath of Tommy Sheridan's libel action...
2006	Tommy Sheridan Tommy Sheridan Tommy Sheridan is a Scottish socialist politician. He has had various prominent roles within the socialist movement in Scotland and is currently one of two co-convenors of the left-wing Scottish political party Solidarity....	Created new Party Solidarity Solidarity (Scotland) Solidarity is a political party in Scotland, launched on September 3, 2006 as a breakaway from the Scottish Socialist Party in the aftermath of Tommy Sheridan's libel action...
2007-2011 Parliament
2011	Hugh O'Donnell	Quit part over its direction

List of Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly who have crossed the floor

Date	Member	Before		After		Notes
1998-2003 Assembly Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1998 -Seats summary:-Details:Although the SDLP won the most first preference votes, the Ulster Unionists won the most seats in the Assembly. This has been attributed to several reasons, including:...
1999	Cedric Wilson Cedric Wilson Cedric Wilson is a politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Belfast, Wilson became the director of a private nursing home. In 1981, he was elected to Castlereagh Borough Council for the Democratic Unionist Party, a post he held until 1989...	Disagreed with UKUP leader Robert McCartney Robert McCartney (politician) Robert Law McCartney QC is a Northern Ireland barrister and former leader of the UK Unionist Party.He was initially a member of the Ulster Unionist Party but was expelled in June 1987 when he refused to withdraw from the general election of that year... , as they wanted to remain in the Assembly to challenge unionists in favour of the Belfast Agreement Belfast Agreement The Good Friday Agreement or Belfast Agreement , sometimes called the Stormont Agreement, was a major political development in the Northern Ireland peace process...
1999	Patrick Roche Patrick Roche (politician) Patrick Roche is a former Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.After working in banking, Roche studied Economics and Politics at Trinity College, Dublin, followed by Political Philosophy at the University of Durham...	Disagreed with UKUP leader Robert McCartney Robert McCartney (politician) Robert Law McCartney QC is a Northern Ireland barrister and former leader of the UK Unionist Party.He was initially a member of the Ulster Unionist Party but was expelled in June 1987 when he refused to withdraw from the general election of that year... , as they wanted to remain in the Assembly to challenge unionists in favour of the Belfast Agreement Belfast Agreement The Good Friday Agreement or Belfast Agreement , sometimes called the Stormont Agreement, was a major political development in the Northern Ireland peace process...
1999	Norman Boyd Norman Boyd Norman Boyd is a former Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Boyd was born in Belfast and attended Belfast High School and Newtownabbey Technical College before working in banking....	Disagreed with UKUP leader Robert McCartney Robert McCartney (politician) Robert Law McCartney QC is a Northern Ireland barrister and former leader of the UK Unionist Party.He was initially a member of the Ulster Unionist Party but was expelled in June 1987 when he refused to withdraw from the general election of that year... , as they wanted to remain in the Assembly to challenge unionists in favour of the Belfast Agreement Belfast Agreement The Good Friday Agreement or Belfast Agreement , sometimes called the Stormont Agreement, was a major political development in the Northern Ireland peace process...
1999	Roger Hutchinson Roger Hutchinson Roger Hutchinson is a former politician in Northern Ireland.After attending Larne Technical College, Hutchinson became a religious minister. He also joined the Orange Order. He moved into business in 1990....	Disagreed with UKUP leader Robert McCartney Robert McCartney (politician) Robert Law McCartney QC is a Northern Ireland barrister and former leader of the UK Unionist Party.He was initially a member of the Ulster Unionist Party but was expelled in June 1987 when he refused to withdraw from the general election of that year... , as they wanted to remain in the Assembly to challenge unionists in favour of the Belfast Agreement Belfast Agreement The Good Friday Agreement or Belfast Agreement , sometimes called the Stormont Agreement, was a major political development in the Northern Ireland peace process...
2000	Roger Hutchinson Roger Hutchinson Roger Hutchinson is a former politician in Northern Ireland.After attending Larne Technical College, Hutchinson became a religious minister. He also joined the Orange Order. He moved into business in 1990....
2003-2007 Assembly Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2003 The second elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, which at the time of the elections had been suspended for just over a year, were held on Wednesday 26 November 2003. Six members were elected by Single Transferable Vote from each of Northern Ireland's eighteen Westminster Parliamentary...
2003	Jeffrey Donaldson Jeffrey Donaldson Jeffrey Mark Donaldson, MP is a Northern Irish politician and Member of Parliament for Lagan Valley belonging to the Democratic Unionist Party...
2003	Nora Beare
2003	Arlene Foster Arlene Foster Arlene Isabel Foster is a politician in Northern Ireland. She is one of two Democratic Unionist Party MLAs representing the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. She became Minister of the Environment on 8 May 2009 and was subsequently reshuffled into the...
23 November 2005	Francie Molloy Francie Molloy Francie Molloy MLA is a Sinn Féin politician and a deputy speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly.He first stood for Sinn Féin in Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the 1982 Assembly Elections finishing as runner-up 542 votes behind the DUP candidate with over 1400 SDLP votes non-transferable...	Suspended from party, after publicly disagreeing with the party policy on eliminating many district councils, including the Dungannon Council of which he was a member.
15 January 2007	Geraldine Dougan Geraldine Dougan Geraldine Dougan was elected in 2003 as a Sinn Féin Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Mid Ulster-Background:Dougan is a long time resident of Maghera, is also a campaigner for pre-school education provision and an avid GAA supporter....	Resigned from party
2 February 2007	Davy Hyland Davy Hyland Davy Hyland is a republican politician in Northern Ireland.He was born in Belfast and was educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and Manchester University...	Resigned from party
2007	Paul Berry Paul Berry Paul 'London' Berry is a Northern Ireland unionist politician.Berry was born in Craigavon, County Armagh, and brought up in Tandragee, where he was educated at local state schools and colleges, following which he was employed in the textile industry...	Stood as an independent but was not elected
February 2007	George Ennis George Ennis Alderman George Ennis is a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.He is a former Democratic Unionist Party politician first elected to Ards in 1993 and was Mayor of Ards in 1998-1999....
2007-2011 Assembly Northern Ireland Assembly election, 2007 The third elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly were held on 7 March 2007 when 108 new members were elected. The election saw endorsement of the St Andrews Agreement and the two largest parties, the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Féin, along with the Alliance Party, increase their...
29 November 2007	Gerry McHugh Gerry McHugh Gerry McHugh MLA is a nationalist politician in Northern Ireland. He represented Sinn Féin on Fermanagh District Council from 1993 to 2007 and has sat as an independent since then. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996, then to the Northern Ireland Assembly at the 1998 election as a...	Believed that "Fianna Fáil was the right party to bring about change in Northern Ireland". Although a member of Fianna Fáil, McHugh sat as an Independent.
30 March 2010	Major Alan MacFarland Alan McFarland Major Robert Alan McFarland, MLA was an Independent Unionist politician and MLA for North Down in Northern Ireland. He lost his Assembly seat in the 2011 election....	Disagreed with the UUP's electoral pact with the Conservative Party Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
3 June 2010	Dawn Purvis Dawn Purvis Dawn Purvis was an Independent Unionist member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. She was previously the leader of the Progressive Unionist Party until she resigned in 2010. She lost her seat in the Assembly in the 2011 election.-Biography:...	Disagreed with direction of party

List of politicians who are suspended from their parliamentary party

Date	Member	Party		Notes
22 March 2010	Patricia Hewitt Patricia Hewitt Patricia Hope Hewitt is an Australian-born British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Leicester West from 1997 until 2010. She served in the Cabinet until 2007, most recently as Health Secretary....	Was only suspended whilst an MP from the Labour Party over the allegations from the 2010 Cash for Influence Scandal 2010 cash for influence scandal The 2010 cash for influence scandal is a political scandal in the United Kingdom. In March 2010, Dispatches, a current affairs documentary series on Channel 4 conducted a journalistic sting operation...  and Former Labour MP 1997-2010
22 March 2010	Geoff Hoon Geoff Hoon Geoffrey "Geoff" William Hoon is a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Ashfield from 1992 to 2010...	Was only suspended whilst an MP from the Labour Party over the allegations from the 2010 Cash for Influence Scandal 2010 cash for influence scandal The 2010 cash for influence scandal is a political scandal in the United Kingdom. In March 2010, Dispatches, a current affairs documentary series on Channel 4 conducted a journalistic sting operation...  and Former Labour MP 1992-2010
22 March 2010	Stephen Byers Stephen Byers Stephen John Byers is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for North Tyneside from 1997 to 2010; in the previous parliament, from 1992, he represented Wallsend...	Was only suspended whilst an MP from the Labour Party over the allegations from the 2010 Cash for Influence Scandal 2010 cash for influence scandal The 2010 cash for influence scandal is a political scandal in the United Kingdom. In March 2010, Dispatches, a current affairs documentary series on Channel 4 conducted a journalistic sting operation...  and Former Labour MP 1992-2010
22 March 2010	Margaret Moran Margaret Moran Margaret Moran is a former Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She was the Member of Parliament for Luton South from 1997 to 2010....	Was only suspended whilst an MP from the Labour Party over the allegations from the 2010 Cash for Influence Scandal 2010 cash for influence scandal The 2010 cash for influence scandal is a political scandal in the United Kingdom. In March 2010, Dispatches, a current affairs documentary series on Channel 4 conducted a journalistic sting operation...  and Former Labour MP 1997-2010
5 November 2010	Phil Woolas Phil Woolas Philip James Woolas was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Oldham East and Saddleworth from his election in 1997 to 2010. He was the Minister of State for Borders and Immigration in the Home Office, as well as being the Minister of State for the Treasury...	Was only suspended whilst an MP from the Labour Party due to being found to have breached the Representation of the People Act 1983 Representation of the People Act 1983 The Representation of the People Act 1983 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It changed the British electoral process in the following ways:* Amended the Representation of the People Act 1969....  and subsequently his 2010 general election victory has been declared void meaning he has been stripped of his seat and he has been barred from holding public office for 3 years. Former Labour MP 1997-2010