Do you need to be an MP to become PM?

Wednesday blog

Much blethering and waffle has been imposed upon us by self-appointed ‘experts’ about how the ‘King of the North’, Andrew ‘f*ck-the-bond-market’ Burnham needs to become an MP to become Labour’s next disastrous, economy-destroying, UK-hating, illegal-migrant-hugging prime minister. But is this true?

From my extensive research (about 1 minute on Google), I have a feeling that it is actually theoretically possible for someone who is not an MP to become PM.

The Institute for Government (I’ve no idea who they are) tells us:

“The Conservative Party constitution says that the leader of the party “shall be drawn from those elected to Parliament”. Clause VII of the Labour Rule Book also says its leader “shall be elected from among Commons members of the PLP [Parliamentary Labour Party].” . 

But these are just rules and rules can be changed. If the Ginger Growler and her socialist chums want the wonderful KIng of the North to replace the catastrophically-incompetent and widely-loathed Davos man Starmer, they just need to change the rules.

Moreover the Institute for Government goes on to inform us:

“The process of appointing the prime minister assumes that he or she will sit in the Commons, but there is nothing that says what happens if they cease to be an MP. The prime minister is the King’s minister. Precedent suggests that a prime minister should be an MP, but there is no suggestion that they must immediately resign if they lost their seat”.

The Cabinet Manual (whatever that is) states that the prime minister “always sits in the House of Commons.” However, this mostly relates to the question of whether they should sit in the Commons rather than the House the Lords. So, from the embarrassingly little I understand, I get the feeling that it might be possible for Labour to shoe in the King of the North as our next prime minister by shoving him into the Lords.

Of course, both methods for annointing the King of the North as our next prime minister would most likely be met with outrage by much of the electorate. I only include them here because I’m surprised that none of the mainstream media ‘experts’ have thought it worth mentioning them.