Editing Nicholas Soames (section)

===Removal and restoration of whip===
{{Main|2019 suspension of rebel Conservative MPs}}
On 3 September 2019, Soames joined 20 other rebel Conservative MPs to vote against the Conservative government of [[Boris Johnson]] and pass a motion allowing backbenchers to take control of the House of Commons timetable in order to pass a bill to stop a [[No-deal Brexit|no-deal exit]] from the EU without parliamentary approval. Effectively, they helped block Johnson's Brexit plan from proceeding on 31 October.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/04/parliament-whip-removed/ |title=Boris Johnson to strip 21 Tory MPs of the Tory whip in parliamentary bloodbath |first=Anna |last=Mikhailova|date=4 September 2019 |access-date=9 September 2019 |via=www.telegraph.co.uk |newspaper=The Telegraph}}</ref> Subsequently, all 21 were advised that they had lost the Conservative whip,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-49578000 |title=What is removing the whip, filibustering and other Brexit jargon? |website=BBC Newsbeat |date=4 September 2019 |access-date=4 September 2019}}</ref> expelling them as Conservative MPs, requiring them to sit as independents.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/principal/whips/ |title=Whips |website=Parliament.uk |access-date=4 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/03/boris-johnson-suffers-commons-defeat-as-tories-turn-against-him|title=Boris Johnson to seek election after rebel Tories deliver Commons defeat|access-date=4 September 2019}}</ref> If Soames had decided to stand for re-election in a future election, the party would have blocked his selection as a Conservative candidate.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/04/parliament-whip-removed/ The Daily Telegraph] Boris Johnson to strip 21 Tory MPs of the Tory whip in parliamentary bloodbath</ref>

Soames announced that he would not be standing in the [[2019 United Kingdom general election|2019 general election]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-49574291/brexit-winston-churchill-s-grandson-to-have-whip-removed |title=Churchill's grandson to have whip removed |work=BBC News}}</ref> On 29 October, [[Boris Johnson]] restored the whip for him and 9 other MPs.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-50228946 |title=PM readmits 10 Brexit rebels to Tory party |date=29 October 2019 |work=BBC News |access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref>