"Do you find it satisfactory that that in a representative democracy our next Prime Minister is highly likely to be neither the choice of the majority of her colleagues, who know her well and see and hear her in action daily, nor the choice of the population as a whole who have no say whatsoever, but simply the choice an unrepresentative and unelected body i.e Conservative party members."
I take your point. My previous post was really about the functioning of the Tory Party in general when it comes to choosing a leader.
The only way round the present problem would be to call a general election. As there is every likelihood that Labour would win, that would be in inhibiting factor when changing a leader mid-term, with the result that Johnson would never have been forced to resign if a GE was mandatory.
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