Ahead Quote by Dominic Cummings

Members of the public would be forgiven for thinking that it is MPs who are lazy and that it is parliament that is failing…

— Margaret Hodge

MPs are paid to be representatives of their constituents. They have to do that job.

— Gina Miller

Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.

— David Penhaligon

MPs do not work for you. They work for the lobbyists who have bought their parties.

— Peter Hitchens

MPs are basically bonded labourers of their parties. And it is the party high command of each party, which takes decisions.

— Arvind Kejriwal

MPs and all public servants are human beings with friends, families and loved ones - families did not choose to be in the public…

— Rachel Reeves

I believe that MPs from all parties must work together to prevent a damaging hard exit.

— Dominic Grieve

MPs are only elected thanks to the help of ordinary members - activists on the ground who traipse the streets, post leaflets and engage…

— Grant Shapps

It is a tenet of representative democracy that MPs are not delegates for their constituents. This means that their decisions and actions are ultimately…

— Gina Miller

Ties of loyalty play an understandably important part in how most MPs interact with their own party and the supporters who have elected and…

— Dominic Grieve

People like to think about MPs in very crass terms: you're either an uber-loyalist babe, or you're a rebel. There isn't any grown-up room…

— Emily Thornberry

Clearly a small minority of corrupt MPs have tarnished the prospects of the decent hard-working majority.

— Cathy Newman