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Re:Count Binface by onion2k on Monday July 13, 2026 @03:12AM (#48888973)
You also have to be an MP.

I don't think that's strictly true. You definitely don't have to be an MP in order to hold a cabinet office. I think that extends to the PM as well. It's never been tried obviously.

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Re:Count Binface by swiftcoder on Monday July 13, 2026 @04:04AM (#48889347)
It's not strictly law, but at this point it might as well be. The last PM to be appointed without being an MP was Sir Alec Douglas-Home in the 1960s, and he immediately resigned his peerage and won a by-election to remedy that...
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Re:Count Binface by pasc1878 on Monday July 13, 2026 @06:29AM (#48890532)
It has been tried but long ago.

The last member of the House of Lords to be PM was Lord Salisbury in 1900.

As noted Alec Douglas-Hume had to leave the House of Lords in 1963 and get elected as a MP.

The previous attempt would have been Lord Halifax in 1940 but by then it was clear the PM had to be from the Commons.

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