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To the best of my knowledge, expulsion under House Rules (as opposed to the 2015 Act) relates to criminal convictions & corruption. A total of 3 MPs were expelled under House Rules in the whole of the 2Oth Century.
In any case, if not currently in prison for more than a year, an expelled MP who thinks he/she has been treated unfairly may ask the voters to decide by standing for re-election.
House of Commons Information Office
Disciplinary and Penal
Powers of the House
As stated in the introduction to this Factsheet, expulsion is the ultimate power available to the
House to remove those it considers unfit for membership. Members in the past have been
expelled for such crimes as perjury, forgery, fraud and corruption.
An expelled Member may seek re-election to the House, even within the term of the same
Parliament that elected him, a principle established in 1782 as a result of the case of John
Wilkes, who was expelled three times and once had his return amended in favour of his defeated
opponent.
There have been three instances this century of expulsion:
Horatio Bottomley (Independent, South Hackney), was expelled in August 1922, after being
convicted of fraudulent conversion of property and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.
Garry Allighan (Labour, Gravesend) was expelled on 30 October 1947, for lying to a committee
and for gross contempt of the House after publication of an article in the World's Press News
accusing Members of insobriety and of taking fees or bribes for the supply of information.
Peter Baker (Conservative, South Norfolk) was expelled on 16 December 1954, after being
sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for forgery.
https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-information-office/g06.pdf
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