Submitted on Friday 14th October 2022
Rejected on Tuesday 18th October 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Elected MPs, not parties, to decide changes of Prime Minister between elections
If a Prime Minister leaves office between elections, the ruling party’s MPs must choose to either:
1 directly elect a new party leader themselves to become the next Prime Minister or 2 dissolve Parliament
In all other circumstances, a party should be free to elect its leader however it may choose.
The principle of our electoral system is clear; we do not vote for a PM, we vote for MPs to represent us under a leader and their party’s manifesto pledges
We hold our MPs to account for their choices at the ballot box. Not so party members
Imposing a PM on us with no mandate for their programme denies voters their central role in our democracy and erodes trust. It ignores the constitutional principle that the government governs by virtue of its ability to command the confidence of the Commons
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for. Decisions about changes to party leadership are a matter for individual political parties, not the UK Government or Parliament.
We could accept a petition calling on the Government to pass legislation requiring a general election to be held in certain circumstances, but cannot accept petitions calling for restrictions on how political parties choose their leaders.
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