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Originally Posted by Chris

In 1963.

IIRC the last peer to hold any of the great offices was Lord Carrington, who resigned as Foreign Secretary in 1982 having apparently given Argentina the impression that we wouldn’t defend the Falkland Islands.

The Prime Minister is appointed by the Queen, on advice from the outgoing PM who tells her who is most likely to enjoy the confidence of the House of Commons. It is vanishingly unlikely that even MPs on the government benches would support a candidate from the Lords. It would be absolutely impossible to justify to their constituents, it would breach almost 60 years of convention and it would give rise to all sorts of difficult headlines as the Lord PM sought to buy off a sitting MP in a sufficiently safe seat for him to try to get into the Commons at a by election.

All of which I’m sure you know, so what’s your point really?

1963 is irrelevant. The mechanism is available.

I was asked in an earlier post whom I suggest might replace Boris. I happen to think Frost would be a valid candidate. Plus John Redwood, of course.


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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

Exactly.

The man who denied seeing any parties is now saying he's not seen any bullying by the whips. That's pretty much an admission that there has been such bullying.

If there's not a trending hashtag #LabourForBoJo then I'm sure there will be one soon.

Nice one!