The shocking thing is that we're talking about the possibility of a prime minister refusing to obey statute law on a matter of vital national importance. Incidentally, I don't believe for a… (View Post)

No - we've been through all this several times. The process is: (1) A VoNC in the existing government (2) If the Queen is advised that someone else is likely to be able to command the confidence… (View Post)

Surely those were just old-fashioned votes treated as a matter of confidence, not the kind of explicit VONC required by the FTPA? (View Post)

Isn't it more a question of only the Leader of the Opposition being able to command time for a vote? If the government were complicit in a VONC against itself, presumably time wouldn't be p… (View Post)

Mostly that the story you link to describes it as a "movement" or a "campaign" rather than a new party, so there's no particular reason to doubt that his strategy is to wait … (View Post)