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  1. In Britain, removal or withholding of a
  2. sitting member of Parliament's official
  3. status as a candidate for a forthcoming
  4. election. The term came into use in the 1980s
  5. with the efforts of many local Labour parties
  6. to revoke the candidature of MPs viewed as
  7. too right-wing.
  8.