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Reader's Letter Of The Day

Posted on the 26 June 2019 by Markwadsworth @Mark_Wadsworth

From The Metro:
I think it's only fair we help out Harry and Meghan with their home alterations, as I imagine their mortgage payments must be enormous.
Bruce, Edinburgh.

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As to the endless comments about it not being fair that Tory party members will be electing the next Prime Minister:
Firstly, if you want a vote, join the Tory party.
Secondly, every party can decide its own rules for choosing a leader, by election or lottery or anything else.
Thirdly, it is the House of Commons which decides whether somebody can be/can continue to be Prime Minister, traditionally they choose the leader of the party with most MPs.
Fourthly, Neville Chamberlain*, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Alec Douglas-Home, Jim Callaghan, John Major, Gordon Brown and Theresa May. Which is half the people who have become PM since the late 1930s.
Fifthly, for my Scottish viewers, Nicola Sturgeon.
Sixthly, as Farage said, the key to democracy is accepting an outcome you don't like. I didn't vote Tory, and I wouldn't vote for Hunt or the overgrown public schoolboy, but enough people do, and that's that.
* Baldwin and MacDonald seem to have taken it in turns since the 1920s, without a general election each time they swapped.


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