@HCH_Hill @philipmurraylaw Plus, and most importantly, he can determine who gets selected or and stand again.
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Exploring the sin in cynicism
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@HCH_Hill @philipmurraylaw He has the power of appointment and can do an astonishing amount by orders in/of council. Unclear whether prorogation ant dissolution are still under his control or justiciable - miller 2 might only have gone for Johnson. The only constraint is confidence.
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I think it's also fair to say that whether the constitution permits a Prime Minister from the Lords is, to say the least, contested. Since at least 1963 there has been a clear expectation that a Prime Minister should be a member of the House of Commons.
Lee David Evans@LeeDavidEvansUK
The constitution may permit it; the Labour rulebook, not so much.
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@godblesstoto He didn’t even speak English when he was cast - so I’ll give him some slack.
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Highlander is an amazing film (forget the sequels ever happened). It's great. Very enjoyable. But let's be honest here. Christopher Lambert is a terrible actor. He was awful. The film was still good because nobody gave too much of a fuck back then as long as it was entertaining.
So I'm personally pretty stoked for the remake with Henry Cavill because the man can act, he looks the part, and I'm guessing he's also a big fan of the original.
I just really hope they don't go and Witcher it.
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@Jebadoo2 They were right tbh. We’re just going round in circles
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@HCH_Hill @philipmurraylaw The constitutional power of the PM to do whatever he wants probably demands it. You could get very quickly into weird territory with this one, especially with so many crony life peers.
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@philipmurraylaw I don't see it, the superiority of the Commons means the formation of any government depends on the voters, it isn't obvious why the Prime Minister being personally returned is essential to democratic government.
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Tom Sharpe 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱🤷🏼♂️🖕🤬 retweetet
@Telegraph Why does he always look like he’s going on his final visit to the vet?
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🔴 Mr Burnham, who is the bookmakers’ favourite to replace Sir Keir Starmer despite his lack of a Westminster seat, troubled investors last year with his suggestion that politicians should not be “in hock” to the bond markets.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…
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This coming from a government source. A less supportive assessment of cabinet meeting
“Keir said in Cabinet that he wouldn't discuss the elections or his leadership, and that he will only speak to cabinet ministers about that individually. Then after the meeting he refused to see Cabinet ministers individually”
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@nmdacosta @Jebadoo2 Surely some version of twit-twooo, ed?
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I feel this hilarious detail is not getting enough attention
Kevin Schofield@KevinASchofield
@tompeck Starmer and Darren Jones off to Norfolk owl sanctuary for the afternoon.
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@RupertMyers Just so appropriate that the colossally incompetent narcissist has put her picture on her letterhead. There’s déclassé and then there’s whatever this is.
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Big names now. The music has stopped.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips has resigned from Keir Starmer's Government
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@MrHarryCole Words she should have lived by, the dreadful fraud.
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@Beardandcamera @OldRoberts953 It had to be her really. A lazy crapulent narcissist calling time on the one person worse than her.
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@OldRoberts953 Me me me me me me me me, I resign, me me me me me me.
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@PStevesson @EasterGammon Indeed. It’s fine to be a hypocrite but you should at least have the grace to do it with a wink to show you’ve noticed
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@PuzzlerSharpe @EasterGammon The Venn diagram of people who think its bad to change PM at a time of war, energy crises and inflation and who spent the first half of 2022 trying to unseat boris johnson is a massive circle
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She did exactly the same thing with Boris and the tories. I suspect you didn’t mind that
TallyCat 🇬🇧🌹@TallyCat8
This woman has done more to break this Government than all the other hacks. She's so frit she turns off replies these days.
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is there anything stranger than having english people condescendingly explain scotland's politics to you
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@HoraceSpellman9 @DamCou @MysteriosoX I found my old A-level papers the other day and was horrified that I couldn’t even establish which questions I might once have been able to answer.
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This pupil, complaining about unrecognisable language, thinks he might be able to cope with a law degree
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@BucketsOf_Rain He’d do a better job and be better with people tbh - and he hates them.
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How many PM scalps will it be for Larry? Six?
Hannah@ehannah0
We are now in the last hours of Starmer’s government. I’ve never been so eager to see a podium.
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People just accepting this at face value 🤔🤡
Cllr Samantha Gethen@Gethens
Statement from Cllr Samantha Gethen: I was asked to leave a SEND community roundtable this morning - not for causing disruption, but because the local Conservative MP, @bhatti_saqib, refused to begin the meeting until I left. I attend North Solihull’s SEND support group as a parent of children with SEND. Yes, I am also an elected Reform councillor - but today I attended as a mother wanting to discuss support for children and families. Rather than allow the meeting to become uncomfortable for the organisers or other parents attending, I chose to leave out of respect for them, and for the significant time and effort that had gone into organising the event for local SEND families. Their priorities should always come before any attempt by the local MP to ostracise me because of my political affiliation. It is deeply disappointing that a non-political family event was turned into a political issue. Excluding a SEND parent from a conversation about their child’s future is wrong. SEND families deserve to be heard, regardless of politics.
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@andrew_lilico Somehow I don’t think anyone would be complaining to lady hale.
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People keep saying this so let's be clear: Starmer cannot call a General Election. He has no power to do so nor any legal right to do so under these circumstances.
Barry Matthews@CGSLtd
@andrew_lilico His MPs know he has & will use the nuclear option of a general election where they all lose their jobs, so like the referral the other week most will keep quite & keep taking the £££. Long term you cannot govern having made so many enemies.
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@scepticalists @MysteriosoX I’ve got a whole urinal that rises out of the ground near mine. Seems to work but a sign of the times.
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@MysteriosoX They also malfunction way more than they have any right to. Near our Spanish flat they have 3 and they've broken twice in 5 years.
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Because finding a spot where you can dig a hole this big without hitting foundations, water pipes, power cables, gas mains, drains and the like is damn near impossible
Clean Up Britain@cleanupbritain
Why don't we do this in Britain? We could dig trenches across every housing estate in Britain and install these underground waste units that only need a two-man operation to empty. Simple, efficient, and clean. No more overflowing bins and bags cluttering the streets.
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Tom Sharpe 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱🤷🏼♂️🖕🤬 retweetet
The German media are reporting that €10bn of the recovery fund money earmarked for Spain ended up in the country’s pension system. This is how the good idea of a eurobond gets killed. Mistrust is not only present. It is justified. This example also goes to show that a eurobond can only work as a sovereign debt instrument of a unified state. If you really care about a eurobond to fortify a capital markets union and the euro as a global currency, you should talk about political union first. Don’t make this a technical discussion.
eurointelligence.com
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