Petition Introduce elections for selecting the UK Prime Minister

An argument of the Brexit camp was that the EU does not reflect a democratic instutition.

Standard practice is that the individual chosen to lead their political party is also the candidate for UK PM. The UK electorate should be able to cast a separate vote on who they feel should be PM.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

30 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 30 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 5 January 2017
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