They are never doing this again. Changing the rules to elect a Labour Leader would be, and repeatedly has been, a laborious process, but the Conservatives' are whatever the Executive of the 1922 Committee decreed at any given time. Herewith, the timetable for the next one:
9 am: Nominations open
11 am: Nominations close
12 noon to 1 pm: First ballot
2 pm: First ballot result declared
3 pm to 4 pm: Runoff between the two highest scoring candidates
5 pm: Final result declared
6 pm: Kissing of hands, thereby making any objection a treasonable act in the eyes of the Tory heartlands
In fact, why bother with the second ballot? They believe in First Past the Post. They may as well use it. Any complaints could be directed to the Queen.
If Truss go in and we were back here next summer, they'd do it like this.
ReplyDeleteIf that. If they allowed any election at all.
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