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A List of Tories Promising to resign when Johnson gets appointed

ISTM to be pushing the UK even closer to the US Presidential system, though even there the Vice-President takes over until the next Presidential election if the President dies or resigns. In the good old/bad old days, an MP had to resign and seek re-election if appointed to any ministerial post (see Trollope passim).
 
ISTM to be pushing the UK even closer to the US Presidential system, though even there the Vice-President takes over until the next Presidential election if the President dies or resigns. In the good old/bad old days, an MP had to resign and seek re-election if appointed to any ministerial post (see Trollope passim).

Could you give a bit more information about what you mean because an MP CANNOT resign their seat.
They have to apply for the Chiltern 100s.
 
Could you give a bit more information about what you mean because an MP CANNOT resign their seat.
They have to apply for the Chiltern 100s.

From yer Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resignation_from_the_British_House_of_Commons#Development_of_procedure

'Sections 24 and 25 of the Succession to the Crown Act 1707 listed ministerial offices as offices of profit.[10] When an MP became a government minister, including Prime Minister, he also lost his seat in the House of Commons. Therefore, Ministers were required to regain their seats in Parliament by winning a ministerial by-election. The Re-election of Ministers Act 1919 made it unnecessary to be re-elected within nine months of a general election, and the Act was amended in 1926 to abolish ministerial by-elections.[2]'

So, strictly speaking they were 'unseated' rather than resigning.
 
They say that Boris Johnson is a vey clever person and considering the education he's had he should be but I personally think he is is what he is. A politician with lower moral standards than the norm. He is the chosen one of the Conservatives as they think he has the best chance of winning an election. After all its all about power and money. Always has been and always will be unless we have a political revolution. Its all about the party and not the Country. I wouldn't be surprised to see a high percentage of ERG members in the next government. If ever there was a group of self centred politicians these are are the ones to be wary of. They have their own wealth at the centre of their whole being. We are just pawns to their money making. If we had an opposition party worthy of the name the government wouldn't be getting away with what they have for the last 5 - 6 years.
 
According to this piece in the Guardian, crawler Hancock won't be one of them. https://www.theguardian.com/society...ecretary-buries-paper-smoking-obesity-johnson
The government’s green paper on the prevention of ill-health appeared on the gov.uk website at 7.22pm, hours after Hancock clashed with Theresa May, who had personally championed the plans.

Hancock told her he thought the document should not be published at all so close to her handing over to her successor as prime minister, almost certainly Boris Johnson, on Wednesday.

His behaviour has sparked speculation that he was seeking to curry favour with Johnson, who has made clear his opposition to “sin” taxes and whose campaign Hancock began enthusiastically supporting after he withdrew from the Conservative leadership race.
 
It’s like one of those emails you get from someone leaving an organisation and they hit the send to all ( ie the global organisation, 45 countries, 9000 people) button. Babs in finance telling you she’s loved every minute of her 18months on board and that she’s off to seek new challenges( ie was about to get fired) and ‘you can catch up with me on LinkedIn’.
 
Hammond
Gauke resigned
Johnson resigned
Milton resigned
Stewart resigned
 
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David Mundell has backtracked on all the things he previously said about Boris, so he'll definitely not be crossing the floor. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/david-mundell-slammed-spineless-jellyfish-18691380
David Mundell was branded “as spineless as a jellyfish” last night after the Scottish Secretary made a craven U-turn to back Boris Johnson.

The Scots Tory MP has previously been a fierce critic of the party’s new leader and was a key part of Scottish Tory efforts to keep him out of Downing Street.

But, faced with the prospect of losing the £67,505 ministerial top up to his £79,468 parliamentary salary, Mundell seems to have changed his tune.

He yesterday indicated he would be willing to serve in a Johnson cabinet and tweeted: “I congratulate Boris Johnson on his clear win in the leadership contest.

“Our party must now unite behind the new leader and Prime Minister, so we can get on with the job of delivering Brexit, whilst maintaining a strong United Kingdom
 
David Myndell has backtracked on all the things he previously said about Boris, so he'll definitely not be crossing the floor. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/david-mundell-slammed-spineless-jellyfish-18691380
I’m guessing he’ll be out of a job no matter how low he crawls unless of course Boris does what May did with him- keep him as a meat shield in the punishment battalion. The ideal man for the “Scottish Secretary” job is Boris’s campaign lead in Scotland, the Aberdeen Groper. He knows how to get people by the balls.
 


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