The front page of Boris Johnson’s house organ the Daily Telegraph on 15th June leads with a call for him to be appointed Tory leader and Prime Minister unopposed.
Were that to happen it would echo the Parliamentary system that one suspects some Tories still want, that which existed before the 1832 Reform Act.
At that time Parliament had many ‘Rotten Borough’ constituencies with very few electors, major industrial centres had no Parliamentary representation and 95% of the population had no vote.
The Prime Minister who presided over the Peterloo Massacre in 1819, Robert Jenkinson (Lord Liverpool) held office not by any democratic vote but because he had the confidence of the Prince Regent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jenkinson,_2nd_Earl_of_Liverpool
Perhaps there is a learning point for Mr Johnson here. Dont bother with Tory MPs and certainly not members. Rather, lobby the Queen.
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