 In 1917, after an altercation in Parliament, Noel Pemberton Billing offered Martin Archer-Shee MP a duel by boxing in public for charity, but Archer-Shee declined.Following a disagreement over Parliamentary procedure and with Billing refusing to sit down while "Germans are running about this country" Billing was ejected from the House of Commons and suspended as an MP on 1 July 1918.At the 1918 general election, he was one of the few candidates to beat a Coalition Coupon candidate and he doubled his majority.