Are you suggesting if a prime minister stands down or dies a general election should be called no matter when the last general election was?
Our electoral system doesn’t work that way, we don’t vote in a US presidential fashion for the PM, we vote for the party and at the last general election Labour won and they decide who leads them and the country and right now it’s Gordon Brown (I happen to like him as a leader).
Even the US with their “man at the top is everything politics” they don’t call an election if a president stands down/dies it goes to the vice president.
Have you considered if the situation changed there would be a benefit in assassinating a Prime Minister, it would force a general election!
Do you really think with all the nutters in the world that hate us, that would be a good thing for British politics?
Have we ever had a PM assassinated?? The IRA almost got Thatcher.
Right now it wouldn’t make a great deal of difference who the PM is, you still have the same 650ish MPs in power doing the day to day parliamentary work.
Yes, who the PM is, is of course very important but we get to choose if we want a party with a particular leader at the helm at that time on election day and that’s how it should stay.
It could as others put it result in an unelected Prime Minister running the country for up to 5 years before the next election, but the alternative would be general elections more often! It’s bad enough now that governments don’t think long term because they only have 5 years to get things done. Anything less than 5 years is not enough time for a government to get it’s policies into legislation before the electorate vote again.
David
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