Being Quote by Dominic Grieve

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

— Arvind Kejriwal

I am a convinced and consistent critic of party-parliamentarism. I am for non-partisan elections of true people's representatives who are accountable to their regions…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Loyalty is the Tory's secret weapon.

— David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir

MPs are so cowed by the institutions and the scale of official failure that they generally just muddle along tinkering and hope to stay…

— Dominic Cummings

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

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

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

Loyalty is about the party and the movement... if you want a better and more effective party, we've got to open ourselves up much…

— Jeremy Corbyn

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

— Anonymous

When I first started campaigning to become an MP in 2004, we were suffering as a party because our hierarchy and leadership were totally…

— Emily Thornberry

MPs must be able to represent the best interests of their constituents and their country by holding the government to account.

— Heidi Allen

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

— Neil Kinnock