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Rotating PM: Could the Brits do it too in 2029 ?
Rotating PM: Could the Brits do it too in 2029 ?
It would seem totally alien to most Brits but if Reform need the Tories to reach a working majority, and the Tories don't want to be a junior partner, an ideal solution to break the deadlock could be for Nigel Farrage and Kemi Badenoch to rotate/share the office of Prime minister for 2.5 years each. There are a good few things that us Irish were surprisingly doing long before the British, for example it took them until 2010 to have general election televised party leaders debates, whereas we were doing it since about 1981.
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Lumpy Talbot
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Re: Rotating PM: Could the Brits do it too in 2029 ?
The Citizens' Assemblies to consider solutions is something that the Irish state does that has garnered quite a lot of attention abroad I recall. I can't think of any reason or legal impediment to a rotating Prime Minister in the UK although it might be something requiring Royal Assent and therefore a Bill before Parliament, perhaps. I'm not sure what other subtle changes would be required for that to happen.