Rejected petition Change of PM mid term should trigger general election

A prime minister who has won a general election has a personal electoral mandate as well as a party mandate for government. The resignation or defenestration of an elected PM with more than a year of office remaining should trigger an automatic general election.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/137376

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Date submitted 7 July 2016
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