LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn is said to be under pressure to make a bid for the PM’s job before Christmas.
But how easy is it to oust a flailing Prime Minister? Here’s what we know about the nuts and bolts of calling a General Election – and what Labour has said about the top job.
Could Corbyn be the next PM?
It’s complicated.
The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 dictates that a full term lasts five years. Before that legislation came in, it was possible to call an election with just six weeks notice.
As per her five-year term, Conservative leader Theresa May is signed up to the top job until 2022.
But since the PM called the disastrous 2017 snap election that lost her Commons majority she has struggled to make much headway at all with Brexit – her most pressing task at hand.
This has contributed to her increasing loss of authority, as MPs on both sides of the benches question her ability to cut a deal they’re happy with.
On December 12, 2018, May faced her biggest test yet after enough Tory MPs called for a vote of no confidence in her leadership.
She won the challenge, and no cannot be challenged again – including from Jeremy Corbyn – for an entire year.
How could another general election be called?
There is a scenarios where an election can be triggered within a five-year term, according to the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011:
- A motion of no confidence is passed in government by a simple majority and 14 days elapses without the House passing a confidence motion in any new Government formed.
- A motion for a general election is agreed by two thirds of the total number of seats in the Commons including vacant seats (currently 434 out of 650).
Is this likely? What has Labour said?
In 2017, Theresa May put the second option to the house where it was passed. Unsurprisingly, she chose not to ask her government to pass a vote of no confidence in itself.
This option is now even less likely, as since that snap election the Tories lost their majority and would not be able to pass it by themselves. However, Labour would likely leap at the chance to trounce the Conservatives – so they would probably back it too.
Theresa May could face a no-confidence vote before Christmas after Jeremy Corbyn launched a chaotic bid to topple her today.
The Labour boss tabled a motion of no confidence in the PM – but prompted mockery after performing two U-turns on whether or not to take the drastic step.
This afternoon he threatened to call the vote if Mrs May refused to name a date for Parliament to debate her Brexit deal, only to change his mind after she did set a timetable.
But hours later Mr Corbyn announced that he was tabling his motion after all in farcical scenes.
It’s not clear whether MPs will actually be able to take part in the vote this week – and even if it does take place, its result won’t actually be binding.
The Prime Minister announced that the Commons vote on her EU withdrawal agreement will take place in the week beginning January 14 – as first reported in The Sun last week.
The timetable she announced today means the Commons will have several days’ debate on the deal in the week starting January 5, then vote on it the following week.
Just minutes before the PM stood up to make a statement on the disastrous EU summit she attended last week, Jeremy Corbyn announced he would bring his no-confidence.
Labour sources claimed it would be a key test for how she would perform in a legally binding vote.
But in a bizarre twist, Mr Corbyn dropped the idea less than an hour after floating it and didn’t even mention it in his response.
A Labour spokesman said: “The Prime Minister has been forced to bring her botched deal back to Parliament under threat of a motion of no confidence in her.”
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He again changed his two hours later and announced he was tabling a motion reading: “This house has no confidence in the prime minister due to her failure to allow the House of Commons to have a meaningful vote straight away on the withdrawal agreement and the framework for the future relationship between the UK and the EU.”
During her Commons statement this afternoon, Mrs May boasted of standing up to Eurocrat bully Jean-Claude Juncker after he called her plans “nebulous and imprecise” at the European Council.
She said: “Some of the resulting exchanges at this Council were robust. But I make no apology for standing up for the interests of this House and the interests of our whole United Kingdom.”
The PM vowed to secure changes to the hated “Irish backstop” proposals which have doomed her deal so far.
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