See this is interesting: I somehow never realized yall's party leadership elections were made by party members. I thought it was like the Speaker of the House, who is elected by Representatives (in your case PMs) of the ruling party.No it was her plan. They voted for new leaders and they wanted to take the party in different directions, she had her own plan for a certain budget and she won the leadership contest on that, as opposed to others who wanted to do different things. So in a sense it was approved by the membership - 80,000 retired majors and their wives who live in Surrey.
Each party is free to choose their own process. At the moment the backroom leadership are choosing a process to expedite choosing the next leader. They can't afford to take months like last time.See this is interesting: I somehow never realized yall's party leadership elections were made by party members. I thought it was like the Speaker of the House, who is elected by Representatives (in your case PMs) of the ruling party.
Technically I guess you could say the Presidential primaries are an internal party leadership election (tho even there a bunch of states allow cross party voting i.e. open primaries) but it's not the same thing.
Really what it is is that the PM basically combines the functions of President (head of state) and Speaker/Senate Majority Leader (head of the party in the legislative branch).
This is the succinct answer to the original questionIf the Tory membership elects a nutter that's can't win a general election, they lose power. This is a very big constraint.
So will the new leader be chosen by Tory MPs, or by Tory membership like Truss was? That's the distinctionEach party is free to choose their own process. At the moment the backroom leadership are choosing a process to expedite choosing the next leader. They can't afford to take months like last time.
So will the new leader be chosen by Tory MPs, or by Tory membership like Truss was? That's the distinction
They are literally making it up now... literally announcing it in fact. I think that the party will nominate first and any MPs that get more than 100 will be put to the membership. So if only one does then there may be a coronation with the members simply rubber stamping it, if there are two or three who meet that threshold then the membership will decide.So will the new leader be chosen by Tory MPs, or by Tory membership like Truss was? That's the distinction
That always bodes wellits a convoluted mixture of the two
The thing is the system that picked Truss - which was also confusing - took months to pick a leader, they daren't do that again.
what liz truss did, which is ultimatley boring polictical mintuae.
gives new meaning to the speaker of the housei think what they're saying they'll do is that the MPs will select two candidates, and if they need a tiebreaker they'll set up soundsystems on each end of the house commons and do a soundclash