Rishi Sunak

I wonder where the little turd has been hiding all day? Statesmanship of the highest order!
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Can he call the election and then resign? I’m sure his Green Card is ready to be reinstated whenever.
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If he calls the election he's no longer a MP. We have no MPs but still have a government. If he resigned as PM after calling the election...
(a) under Tory party rules they'd have to have a leadership election - but no MPs to thin out candidates for the party members to vote on;
(b) it would remind people that they vote for individual MPs but not a PM;
(c) a constitutional nightmare in asking who could the King invite to be PM when there is no Parliament in which one person could command the confidence of a majority.

Much as I relish the idea that the King might invite Starmer to be PM, he'd presumably choose a member of the government - for a 3-week stint as PM.... Or someone with experience... Theresa May.
(Nearest I can think of is 1834 when the King asked the Duke of Wellington to form an interim government while they sent a civil servant across Europe to find Robert Peel and ask him to come back to be PM - a great story in itself.)
 
Vic said:
If he calls the election he's no longer a MP. We have no MPs but still have a government. If he resigned as PM after calling the election...
(a) under Tory party rules they'd have to have a leadership election - but no MPs to thin out candidates for the party members to vote on;
(b) it would remind people that they vote for individual MPs but not a PM;
(c) a constitutional nightmare in asking who could the King invite to be PM when there is no Parliament in which one person could command the confidence of a majority.

Much as I relish the idea that the King might invite Starmer to be PM, he'd presumably choose a member of the government - for a 3-week stint as PM.... Or someone with experience... Theresa May.
(Nearest I can think of is 1834 when the King asked the Duke of Wellington to form an interim government while they sent a civil servant across Europe to find Robert Peel and ask him to come back to be PM - a great story in itself.)
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Interesting. I hope he does it so that we get to see what happens!
 
Vic said:
If he calls the election he's no longer a MP. We have no MPs but still have a government. If he resigned as PM after calling the election...
(a) under Tory party rules they'd have to have a leadership election - but no MPs to thin out candidates for the party members to vote on;
(b) it would remind people that they vote for individual MPs but not a PM;
(c) a constitutional nightmare in asking who could the King invite to be PM when there is no Parliament in which one person could command the confidence of a majority.

Much as I relish the idea that the King might invite Starmer to be PM, he'd presumably choose a member of the government - for a 3-week stint as PM.... Or someone with experience... Theresa May.
(Nearest I can think of is 1834 when the King asked the Duke of Wellington to form an interim government while they sent a civil servant across Europe to find Robert Peel and ask him to come back to be PM - a great story in itself.)
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In this scenario Call Me Dave is a shoe-in and a few weeks later would be sitting in the corner at Westminster as leader & MP with around 20 sniveling little Tory shits.
 
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