Wednesday 5 May 2010

Who will be the next Prime Minister?

Obviously if David Cameron's Tories or Gordon Brown's Labour Party secures over 50% of the seats one or other will be PM. But what if it is a hung parliament? Here the waters become murky. Brown will remain PM until he resigns. He may choose to hang on and try and secure a deal with other parties. In these circumstances there is little Cameron can do.

However Clegg has made it clear that the price for any Lib-Lab arrangement is that Brown must go. It is for Brown to recommend to the Queen whom she should send for to form a government. Labour MPs would undoubtedly want an election to decide the issue after the fiasco of the Brown 'coronation'.

Who would stand in as the stop-gap whilst the election was being held, who would the Queen be advised should be called to the Palace? Step forward Harriet Harperson, the current Deputy to Brown. She has declared already that she would not be a candidate in a Labour leadership election.

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