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Nope, I can't put up with the adverts. Andrew

Now that the Exec have kicked the Lib Dems into touch, the Tories are now the only option, so there is nothing really to stop him resigning. Cameroon could be in Number 10 by tomorrow. It is still possible that they might not be. Unless there has been some change during the day, reporting...

Yes, you do stand-up, don't you? :lol Andrew

I don't know whether you guys have seen it, but the Labour Party National Executive have decided that there is no deal to be done with the Lib Dems. Labour have withdrawn from any further talks. As far as the Lib Dems are concerned, they now have a deal with the Tories or nowt to look forward...

In the present circumstance, the best result for either the Tories or Labour would be to spend the next parliament in opposition. In my view, the party that comes into power will take the blame for the measures that they have to introduce to sort the economy. If Mervyn King is right, they...

This is the one I saw. The page definitely does not say that he has resigned as PM. There is a video of his statement. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8672859.stm How weird ....... Andrew

He announced that he was going to resign in the future (unless there has been another statement since then that I haven't seen). In the one that I saw on the Beeb, he said that he intended to remain as Prime Minister (if there was a Lib/Lab pact, I think he meant) until legislation on...

It doesn't feel right to me either. There is lots of precedent though. How about Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (aka Lord Palmerston)? He was a Tory prime minister!! Andrew

Do you do stand-up as well? Andrew

The difference between resigning as PM (which is what you implied) and continuing as PM in a Lib/Lab coalition until the next Labour Party leadership election in the Autumn is not trivial. Didn't you have another listen then? Andrew

Nick Clegg may well get his come-uppance in due course. I understand that he has now asked for formal negotiations with the Labour Party (presumably because the Lib Dem MPs sent him away with a flea in his ear when he reported back about the Tory offer). I wonder how he is going to explain...

If you make a statement, it is for you to prove that the conclusion follows. AFAIK, there is no statute that prevents me sawing my left leg off at the knee - but it would be perverse to argue that I had any real choice in the matter. Gordon Brown has no real choice. Bimbling about the lack...

I did not say that there was a statutory requirement. Justify your statement. Justify that this government (i.e. the one lead by GB) has displayed immoral behaviour. If you intend a reference to the invasion of Iraq then I may well agree with you, in principle - but the PM was not Gordon...

The only person who has used the word statute or statutory in a post in this thread is you. I have made no claims about statutory requirements. I said that Gordon Brown has a duty to remain as prime minister until a new one who is likely to be able to command a majority in the house is...

Good Cracking rumour. Unnamed, eh? :lol Indeed so, the constitutional experts do seem to say that he should stay until another government is formed. If you read all of the Justice Committee minutes document I referred you to, you'll see Professor Bogdanor saying that in a hung...

I have just come across an interesting answer in the Justice Commitee minutes that I referred to above: Q13 Dr Whitehead: There is the circumstance under which the incumbent Prime Minister stays on, as it were, as chief adviser to the Sovereign, over and above his political imperative to...

Didn't you read the Labour Manifesto 2010 (no, me neither :doh)? Tut tut ..... See 9:2 here: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmjust/396/10022401.htm Andrew

From the few moments that I was able to grab this morning to listen to the news, it would seem that the leadership of the Conservatives and Lib Dems are close to reaching some kind of agreement, so hopefully the situation should clarify in the next day or so. Whether they can sell the agreement...

I have just been watching a recording, on the Beeb, of part of the meeting of the Justice Committee on 24 Feb 2010 on the topic "Constitutional processes following a general election". The document recording the minutes of that meeting is here...

The best advice that GB can get is that from the cabinet secretary. The advice given by the constitutional experts fielded by the Beeb is as I have explained - and seems to be the same. Your arguments to the contrary are just political posturing. I strongly suspect that it is you that is...