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party members to ensure that they participate according to the official party policy. A whip's role is also to ensure that the elected representatives of their party are in attendance when important votes are taken. The usage comes from the hunting term "whipping in", i.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 Withdrawal of the whip It means that the person who has had the whip withdrawn has the ties that links them to a political party severed.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.