That’s just parliamentary convention. Since the last government did a
away with whole swathes of our traditions and heritage I am surprised that was not consigned to the bin as well.

My own hopefully objective view is that there is large number of hardworking, unambitious constituency members who work hard and long on behalf of their constituents, of whichever party. It might surprise you to hear that we lived in John Major’s constituency and both before and after he held high office he was an excellent MP.