Basically, Andy Burnham has majority support within the Labour Party to be the next PM, but he wasn’t a member of Parliament, which is necessary to challenge a current PM for the role. So the Parliament member for Makerfield resigned to hold a special election so that he could (hopefully) win the seat, which he did, and now he’s set to become the new PM.
And here I was trying to summarise the Westminster system with four paragraphs.
Only thing worth noting is a PM isn’t some presidential position. It’s generally just the party leader in the leadership position of the other ministers.
If a party decided they want to take turns of being leader each month, they’d each take a turn at being PM too.
Ah, this explains it. I was wondering how some random person who won an off-cycle election could just jump into leadership like that. But it seems that he had the leadership support already, and the election was engineered to make him eligible.
I was curious as to why none of the already elected Labour MPs would get the job. I guess none of them want it. Let’s see if he lasts longer than my salad.
They’re all widely seen as either tainted by Starmer, not good enough, or too new (as about half of them came in at the last election 2 years ago). There are some who have ambition, but not sure if they’ll have the support necessary to challenge.
John Oliver did an episode of Last Week Tonight on it recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZL_TctrNco
Basically, Andy Burnham has majority support within the Labour Party to be the next PM, but he wasn’t a member of Parliament, which is necessary to challenge a current PM for the role. So the Parliament member for Makerfield resigned to hold a special election so that he could (hopefully) win the seat, which he did, and now he’s set to become the new PM.
And here I was trying to summarise the Westminster system with four paragraphs.
Only thing worth noting is a PM isn’t some presidential position. It’s generally just the party leader in the leadership position of the other ministers.
If a party decided they want to take turns of being leader each month, they’d each take a turn at being PM too.
Ah, this explains it. I was wondering how some random person who won an off-cycle election could just jump into leadership like that. But it seems that he had the leadership support already, and the election was engineered to make him eligible.
I was curious as to why none of the already elected Labour MPs would get the job. I guess none of them want it. Let’s see if he lasts longer than my salad.
They’re all widely seen as either tainted by Starmer, not good enough, or too new (as about half of them came in at the last election 2 years ago). There are some who have ambition, but not sure if they’ll have the support necessary to challenge.
The too news generally come under tainted by starmer - there was a lot of parachuting and overriding CLPs in the last election.