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Originally Posted by pip08456
Let's just have an election, Con's will get in, Boris will still be leader we will leave on the 31st Oct. Simples.
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We can’t hold an election where BJ will be PM (if he wins) before the 31st October, even if he calls one* tomorrow or Thursday, as a general election would need to follow a strict timetable specified in law - Parliament has to be dissolved at least
25 working days before polling day, and by tradition, polling day is on a Thursday.
If he picked Thursday October 31 for polling day (27 working days from now), dissolution would need to take place on Thursday September 26th (but the results wouldn’t be available until the 1st of October).
So, for BJ to call* and win an election so he would still be leader by 31st October, Parliament would need to be dissolved tomorrow.
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which he can’t