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Originally Posted by Chris
Hardly.
Our constitution is decorated by pageantry and crown authority but the reality is the King can’t do this without advice, and the advice is always that the leader of the largest party in the Commons is the choice for PM.
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Snipped as I know how the system works.
Regardless of how many words you choose to describe it it’s neither a mandate from the party membership (who indeed chose someone else when he was on the ballot) nor from the electorate itself.
If anything the Truss debacle undermines our democratic credentials rather than reinforces it. By your measure she had a mandate to deliver until she didn’t. Removing the right of a party membership to elect it’s leader is profoundly undemocratic. In turn when it picks a PM it evokes more images of Putin’s Russia than home of the self-styled mother of all Parliaments.