No, they elect the leader of their paty and as much as that is de facto the same thing, it is an important distinction
This is why Johnson is still PM and not party leader. The Queen invited him to be her Prime Minister and as much as you and I don't like that, it currently is what it is.
We don't elect Prime Ministers, we live in a Parliamentary Democracy. A Political Party changing it's leader mid-term is a perfectly normal thing in such a system
It is something the electorate need to take into account when they vote for their local candidate
It wouldn't change under PR either. You'd need to change to a Presidential model to do that. Just think about that. Johnson would have had an electoral mandate to stay on. His party couldn't have removed him
Can't see it. The very last date they can call an election is 17th December 2024, the election must be within 25 days of that
They can thank Boris for that too
The country won't thank them for a General Election Campaign over the Xmas period
And that's why Internet and robocalling responses seemingly produce more accurate results too
It's also why the TV companies manage to find such an unrepresentative sample when they do their Vox Pops (in Stoke)
The shy Tory is a bit of a myth when it comes to opinion polls. It was supposed to be the reason that the polls were out in 1992 and 2015 but an independent enquiry by the British Polling COuncil found this to be untrue, it was the polling methods themselves that were wrong because they used unrepresentative samples
I just did the election predictor because I'm a saddo based on those new polls
Obviously I realise this won't happen but there's some hilarious names that lose their seats. At Lab 41 Con 29 LD 15 Green 4 Ref 4., some selected highlights
Graham Brady
Lee Anderson
Tobias Elwood
George Eustice
Iain Duncan-Smith
Theresa Villiers
Natalie Elphicke
Dominic Raab
Daniel Kawczynski
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Esther McVey
Boris Johnson
Alun Cairns
Peter Bone
Grant Shapps
Shaun Bailey
John Redwood
Steve Baker
Stuart Andrew
Steven Crabb
Oh and a working majority of 44 for Labour
Yeah but come on, It's Wigan / St Helens behaviour. It's relatively sane compared to the rest of the deviant shit they get up to
Only places in the country where they can use imperial numbering because they have the requisite number of fingers