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Dr Nick Dickinson
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Alec Douglas-Home didn't just take up his seat at the same time, but was actually PM for twenty days between renouncing the peerage and taking a seat in the Commons. Like Burnham though he was a longtime MP before ascending to an earldom in 1951.
Today one of Labour’s strongest supporters of Proportional Representation takes his place in Parliament.
Welcome, Andy Burnham!
Now let’s rewire Westminster together so that every voter is fairly heard.
#Labour4PR 🌹
@andyburnham.bsky.social
The best ever to to do it:
I shouldn't have looked at this
Send the King, you cowards
"While voters may occasionally unite against a common enemy, they remain deeply divided on other aspects of policy, leaving leaders... trying to hold together a sandcastle coalition that crumbles the moment the tide comes in."
Me for @theconversation.com
theconversation.com/keir-starmer...
In the end, the pressure on him to go was just to great.
And that's the ballgame folks
Thinking of doing a ranking of all the resignation speeches in the last ten years. Cameron is probably top if you ignore how aggravating the insouciance was in retrospect. May and Truss were a bit pathetic in different ways. Sunak was solid enough. Only thing I remember from Johnson is the herd bit.
In the end, the pressure on him to go was just to great.
Has anyone ever been preparing to take over as Prime Minister *on the same day* they were sworn in as an MP? This is such a wild moment for British politics, political geeks will be quoting it for decades.
