Payroll vote

Payroll vote

Payroll vote is a term in the British Parliamentary System for the office-holders, paid or unpaid, among a party's MPs or peers who are obliged either to support their party's position in whipped votes or to resign. The payroll vote includes members of the Cabinet or Shadow Cabinet, whips, junior ministers and Parliamentary Private Secretaries and currently, for the government, numbers around 100 MPs.


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