UK: Failure to appear at Commons leads to MP recall threat

Potential expansion of the recall law here -- MP Nadine Dorries (Conservative) is facing recall threats over her failure to show up to the House of Commons for a year. Labour MP Chris Bryant is looking to use a rule from 1801 that would allow for 10 or more day suspension for an MP who does not attend after not showing up for six months. The 10 day suspension would allow for a recall petition to be submitted.

Dorries, the former Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, promised to resign from parliament after her name was removed from a peerage list from former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. However, she has not resigned.