Boris Johnson

TommyC | 12:48 Sat 25th Jun 2016 | News

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I may be missing something but... Can anyone please explan how Boris Johnson can be elected as new Conservative Party leader - and therefore Prime Minister - if he is not a serving MP ? Not at PM's Questions... Not talking to the Westminster press.. Not present at crucial debates... How on earth can that work ?

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ToraToraTora

he is an MP.

murraymints

still a member of the party

ToraToraTora

Uxbridge I believe.

fiction-factory

http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/boris-johnson/1423

Prudie

He's been an MP since the last election. I thought a replacement party leader while in government automatically became the PM without an election,didn't at least one PM do it in recent times (can't remember who).

murraymints

uxbridge and south ruislip

Jackdaw33

He returned to the Commons in 2015.

murraymints

Gordon Brown ?

fiction-factory

Found this
The leader doesn't have to be an MP, but these days by convention they are. The last PM who was not an MP was Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (Prime Minister 1895-1902), who was instead a member of the House of Lords. This is unlikely to happen again, since the balance of power has shifted dramatically from the Lords to the Commons.
https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Prime-Minister-a-member-of-Parliament-in-the-UK-Why