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e. preventing hounds
from wandering away from the pack.
A three-line whip In the UK a three-line whip is an instruction given to Members of
Parliament by the leaders of theirparty telling them they must votein the way that
the party wantsthem to on a particular subject.
Withdrawal of the whip It means that the person who has had the whip withdrawn has the
ties that links them to a political party severed. They are effectively an independent MP after that
point.
Unwhipped vote A free vote - or unwhipped vote - in Parliament is one in which MPs or
members of the Lords are not put under pressure to vote a certain way by their party leaders.
Free votes have traditionally been allowed on ethical issues that are seen as a matter of
conscience. Hansard- Hansard is the traditional name of the transcripts of Parliamentary
Debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries. It is named after Thomas Curson