Rejected petition Call a general election so that the next prime minister is democratically chosen

At a time of political crisis it is clearly not democratic for the Prime Minister to be chosen only by the Conservative party membership, particularly as they are in no way representative of the electorate as a whole.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/264215

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Date submitted 17 July 2019
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