Reform MP Andrew Rosindell has said he will not be calling for a general election if the Labour Party removes Sir Keir Starmer.
Speaking on GB News, Rosindell said: “I disagreed entirely with Mrs Thatcher being removed from office. You elect a prime minister and the government, and you judge the party in power at the end at a general election.
“There should be an extreme situation where you change prime ministers. Now, I have no love for Keir Starmer, but I didn’t agree when Mrs. Thatcher was turfed out of office. I didn’t like the way Boris was treated.
“But it’s almost become a tradition. Now you just get rid of a prime minister as soon as they’re unpopular. That’s not the British way.
“We are a parliamentary democracy. You elect Members of Parliament and the leader of the party with the most seats provides the Prime Minister.
“However, in today’s world, with media and people seeing the leader of a party as a potential Prime Minister, they are also voting on the leader of the country, so there is a balance to be had.
“Now, if a prime minister fails completely, you could argue that Keir is failing completely, there’s a justification for it.
“But I still think that ultimately the British people vote for a government and a prime minister, and that the general election is when you change in a democratic way.
“I think if the Prime Minister were to change, I think there is a case for a general election. But of course, we had so many different prime ministers and we didn’t have a general election.
“I just think people are fed up with it all. They want a government that can govern. They elect a government thinking they’re going to do things, and they finish up not doing the things they say they’re going to do and people are disillusioned, or becoming disillusioned, with the entire political system.”
