Verdicts · Personnel
Personnel referendums: how members voted
Settled referendums
42
since Jun 2026
Votes cast
10,592
all time, on Westminster personnel
This week
0
votes · 0 referendums settled
Written opinions
417
all time, left by voters
Votes each week
0 last week
All-time personnel highlights
Biggest landslide
YES 91%
Should Police officers and military personnel comply with minimal physical fitness requirements, tested regularly?
91% of 276 votes went the same way.
Closest result
NO 51%
After Nigel Farage’s press conference would you say he’s gone from his job or has he stayed?
Decided by 2 votes.
Most debated
NO 65%
Should Ed Miliband be removed as Foreign Secretary for meeting the Iranian commissioner?
69 written opinions.
The latest verdicts
majority
% voting yes, by leaning
Is Andy Burnham doing a good job as Prime Minister?
The verdict
Andy Burnham narrowly lost the test, but the most-respected argument on each side made the same comparison: not with a settled standard of premiership, but with Keir Starmer. The sharpest No voice asked, “How terrifying that half the people here seem to think he’s going a good job”; the best-respected Yes case replied, “Well, yes. But, only compared to Kier Starmer!”
majority
% voting yes, by leaning
Should Ed Miliband be removed as Foreign Secretary for meeting the Iranian commissioner?
The verdict
The argument was less about whether Miliband should stay in office than whether diplomacy with an adversary can itself be grounds for dismissal: No won comfortably, while the strongest Yes case focused on the photo, not the meeting.
majority
% voting yes, by leaning
Should Sadiq Khan have been given a peerage?
The verdict
“I don’t believe failure should be rewarded,” said the floor’s sharpest refrain; No won decisively, with opposition driven as much by hostility to the Lords as by hostility to Khan.
majority
% voting yes, by leaning
Should the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, resign over handing an award to Muslim cleric who praised Bin Laden?
The verdict
An award withdrawn within days did not close the case: voters still demanded resignation, with the sharpest Yes voices treating the episode as “the final straw” rather than an isolated mistake.
majority
% voting yes, by leaning
Should Nigel Farage resign after "plotting to break law on foreign donations"?
The verdict
The chamber backed resignation, but the sharpest No case insisted: “A Channel 4 sting and a call to resign are not a conviction.” The result was less a verdict on guilt than a test of political standards.
majority
% voting yes, by leaning
Is Kemi Badenoch right to remove Mel Stride as shadow chancellor?
The verdict
“Growth faces are fine. Turmoil is not a policy” was the losing side’s sharpest line, as the chamber gave Badenoch’s removal of Mel Stride a decisive endorsement.
Every personnel verdict
- Is Andy Burnham doing a good job as Prime Minister?NO 54%1,484 votes · 11 Oct
- Should Ed Miliband be removed as Foreign Secretary for meeting the Iranian commissioner?NO 65%1,337 votes · 3 Oct
- Should Sadiq Khan have been given a peerage?NO 77%1,051 votes · 20 Sept
- Should the Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, resign over handing an award to Muslim cleric who praised Bin Laden?YES 64%965 votes · 19 Sept
- Should Nigel Farage resign after "plotting to break law on foreign donations"?YES 57%552 votes · 5 Sept
- Is Kemi Badenoch right to remove Mel Stride as shadow chancellor?YES 75%395 votes · 4 Sept
- Should Zack Polanski resign as Green Party leader?YES 56%284 votes · 22 Aug
- Should Harry and Meghan receive taxpayer-funded security upon returning to the UK?NO 74%301 votes · 22 Aug
- Is Andy Burnham evidence that democracy in the UK is a mere illusion?YES 55%254 votes · 20 Aug
- Should Police officers and military personnel comply with minimal physical fitness requirements, tested regularly?YES 91%276 votes · 19 Aug
- Did Nigel Farage call the by-election to avoid scrutiny over his £5 million gift?YES 69%267 votes · 17 Aug
- Is DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) ultimately responsible for Jason Arday's death?YES 52%256 votes · 16 Aug
- Should Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor not receive a state funeral as planned?YES 73%236 votes · 14 Aug
- Did Keir Starmer leave the UK in a better place than he found it?NO 66%253 votes · 14 Aug
- Is Kemi the right leader for the Tories?YES 57%199 votes · 13 Aug
- Can Andy Burnham end rough sleeping as prime minister?NO 76%193 votes · 12 Aug
- Has the Nigel Farage bubble burst?YES 58%122 votes · 2 Aug
- Is an increasingly informal prime minister dress code proof of the decline in all aspects of political leadership?NO 52%142 votes · 1 Aug
- Can Andy Slaughter effectively serve as Solicitor General after meeting Hamas in 2010?NO 53%138 votes · 28 Jul
- Can Anas Sarwar credibly serve as a UK trade minister after criticising the House of Lords?NO 56%94 votes · 25 Jul
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- Is Andy Burnham set to be a total clown?NO 57%113 votes · 24 Jul
- Can Andy Burnham lead Britain after sidelining Starmer supporters in his first Cabinet?YES 62%123 votes · 23 Jul
- Should Mo Farah get his knighthood removed?NO 75%138 votes · 21 Jul
- Should Keir Starmer be tried for treason over his immigration and cultural policies?NO 68%192 votes · 21 Jul
- Should Andy Burnham introduce proportional representation to reduce UK political polarisation?YES 54%105 votes · 21 Jul
- Would Andy Burnham improve Labour's electoral prospects over Keir Starmer?NO 53%119 votes · 15 Jul
- After Nigel Farage’s press conference would you say he’s gone from his job or has he stayed?NO 51%98 votes · 14 Jul
- Is Trump the death knell of American democracy as we know it?NO 56%91 votes · 12 Jul
- Is Farage in deep trouble?YES 57%77 votes · 12 Jul
- Can Nigel Farage remain an MP after failing to declare gifts from a fraud convict and a billionaire donor?NO 55%66 votes · 9 Jul
- Is Farage toast over the 5 million payment?NO 55%71 votes · 8 Jul
- Should Andy Burnham introduce proportional representation to reduce UK political polarisation?YES 66%67 votes · 8 Jul
- Would Ed Miliband make a good chancellor under Andy Burnham?NO 67%73 votes · 7 Jul
- Has Shabana Mahmood lost her mind?YES 59%61 votes · 6 Jul
- Would Rupert Lowe make a better leader than Nigel Farage?NO 52%66 votes · 6 Jul
- Should Ed Miliband be appointed chancellor under Andy Burnham?NO 80%25 votes · 30 Jun
- Will Andy Burnham make for an effective Prime Minister?NO 56%55 votes · 29 Jun
- Has Nigel Farage contributed to the downfall of four Prime Ministers?YES 54%56 votes · 29 Jun
- Was Keir Starmer right to resign?YES 72%57 votes · 29 Jun
- Is Keir Starmer's legacy a good one?YES 53%53 votes · 29 Jun
- Would Andy Burnham be a worse Prime Minister than Keir Starmer?YES 52%52 votes · 28 Jun
- Should Keir Starmer resign as Prime Minister on Monday?YES 63%35 votes · 28 Jun