Bit of a dumb question but...

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If, say, Labour win but Gordon Brown doesnt win the vote in Kirkcaldy can he stay as PM? WOuld they have to do a quick vote or would someone automically step in and who?
Similar for the others, I mean, you obviosuly can't have a PM who isn't an MP but what would they do?

Ooh, that is a good question.

I think you can be a member of the House of Lords and be in cabinet. Wasn't there a Lord something or other Prime Minster last century or am getting very garbled with my history?

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he would have to be made into a lord pretty sharpish I think - you have to be a member of one house or the other.

Ooh taf, so 'someone else' would suddenyl become PM?

Contraversial!

we vote for a party not a leader someone else would become prime minister

and there is no way he would loose on home ground

Not all that controversial. We (shamefully) didn't elect Brown as PM in the first place. He just oozed into the role when Blair oozed out. If Brown failed to win his seat but Labour were forming a government they'd probably do the same thing again