badgerx16

Why ? The governing Party's mandate remains valid, and the electorate do not elect the PM, he/she is appointed by the Monarch. Edit: the scenario of a PM resigning on ill health grounds mid-term is exactly what happened in 1923 when Andrew Bonar Law got cancer and was replaced by Stanley Baldwin. Bonar Law himself had become PM the previous year without a GE when he replaced David Lloyd George, who had lost the confidence of his Conservative Party coalition allies. There was also the resignation of Macmillan in 1963, replaced by Alec Douglas-Home without a GE. And of course, the most famous example:- Churchill replacing Chamberlain when he wasn't even leader of a party.

1) "Shrink the State" is standard Tory mantra/dogma. 2) Most of what a Government does during it's term will not have been in it's manifesto. As it is, a manifesto is a combination of aspirations, smokescreens, and bald faced lies.

As I asked a little earlier in the thread, if a PM has to give up due to ill health mid term, does that, or should that, require a GE ?

Have you managed to sneak access to a keyboard whilst your carer is on a break ?

If a PM with a large Parliamentary majority has to give up due to ill health half way through his term, would that require a GE, or can they simply hand over to a successor selected by their party ?

Carry out a simple mental exercise. Picture each of the candidates in turn in the position of Prime Minister; at PMQs, addressing the nation on some serious matter, and on the World stage representing the UK. Then try not to slit your wrists in despair.

She may know cheese, but she doesn't know the difference between the Baltic and Black seas.

Persecution

It's the Borrowers returning what they don't need.

VONC would see the Tory party united and effectively endorse Boris.

Looks like an ammo dump going up. Nova Kakhovka is a hydro-electric generating plant, so unlikely to do that.

Rather than bribing us with phoney tax cuts, why don't they tell us what they are going to do about this ? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62123691 "Domestic energy bills will rise faster this winter than previously forecast by the energy regulator Ofgem, its chief executive has admitted to MPs."

The alleged rape occurred before the crash.

Former Chancellor Lord Lamont says the leadership election is in danger of turning into a Dutch auction of tax cuts, irrespective of the actual state of the Public finances.

"He" is trans and is said to have PTSD after being raped.

What if said Rubber Boobies ?

Olivier

How many of our squad can we afford to have that fall into the "no major gamble if it doesn't work out" category.?

When told we had finished, our grandson was confused as to why the riders in the TdF were still going. Bloody warm in Blackpool at the finish. One chap did the ride on a penny-farthing, another on an original Raleigh Chopper.

Only because his granddad did.

The Morning Star, a former communist and now pro-Putin mouthpiece, reports that Ukraine, in the middle of a brutal invasion that has killed thousands of it's civilian population, bans political groups that openly support the invader. Russia, denying that a war is actually taking place, jails a man for telling the truth. Yep, exactly the same.

Eye

What did you expect ?

Further down that conversation you find this Ex

Bookies favourite Ben Wallace rules himself out of the running.