Good Tory Move

I support the Cameron proposal to require an incoming leader of a governing party who becomes Prime Minister to go to the country within six months. I put this forward in my book, especially as today all the parties give their membership outside parliament (in Labour’s case the trade unions as well) a say in electing a new leader. When this process was restricted to MP’s this was not so critical, but now it is. I would cut the time period from six months to three.

However this alone, without reform of the voting system is pointless. Things are in too much disarray now and general constitutional reform will be demanded once the current general election is over. This will reveal a disparity between votes and seats which will be unacceptable as well as the need for each MP to gain a majority of votes overall. For the record, since the WW II there have been six  changes of PM by the governing party. Eden, Macmillan, Home and Major were Tory; Callaghan and Brown were Labour, so the Tories have done the most PM changing in the past.