Important:

This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament

Rejected petition Make changing a party leader/Prime Minister trigger a General Election

It looks likely that the next Conservative leadership election will leave us with a new Prime Minister without a General Election.

Leaders from the same party can have very different ideas of how to run the country and each new leader should require a fresh mandate to implement their programme.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/250152

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