Could Sunak Actually be Ousted Before the Election? 

No, he will be the scape goat for the immense loses, so the next leader will be free of that blame.

The Tories ousting Sunak to delay the election until October would be like putting out a pan fire with petrol. You'll take the house down with it, it would be suicide for the Tories

There was a comment made on this very channel that I saw a long time ago that read something like this: "With Sunak, their prospects are terrible, Without him, they'd be far worse."

Having a Tory leadership race alongside the general election. Madness, do they want Labour to have 600 seats? Because all they will say to voters is that you don't even know who their leader is?

I would be retiring or working less in 5 years, and I'm curious to know best how people split their pay, how much of it goes into savings, spendings or investments, I earn around $250K per year but nothing to show for it yet.

It has been believed by MANY that one of the biggest reasons why he called for a general election this early was because of a possible no-confidence vote against him. If the Tories lose to mere 100 seats, our dear PM can simply say that “there are always detractors on my back.”

Given he called the election so he wouldn't be thrown out of the job by the party, it would be funny as hell if he still was.

The Tory rebel MPs are experts at claiming/threatening to set up impossible goals and also experts at folding when their bluff is called.

As an American with a purely intellectual interest in UK politics, all I’ll say is “legendary thumbnail”

If the Tories put in ANOTHER PM, the King would be well within his rights to suspend the Magna Carta and lock them all in the Tower.

Ousting him before the election & showing even more infighting is a great strategy to give Labour and even LibDems more votes & seats and that is why they should totally do it imo 😂😂

Being mad at their boss for their job security was probably the most non-Tory-MP experience they will ever have in their lives, yet here we are, Tory MPs being mad at their boss for their job security🤣

Minister for common sense is insane, how is that even a minister position. Only in a tory government do you need a ministry for common sense lmao

Now parliament is prorogued, there is no mechanism to hold a vote of confidence in him as prime minister.

I can't get over Minister of Common Sense being an actual job title. What a joke

So the tory's plan/desire is to install YET ANOTHER unelected fop, purely to hold on to any semblage of power?

The penny has finally dropped for me at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="145">2:25</a> - Esther McVey - "The Minister For Common Sense". Rishi Sunak really does have a very dark and extremely cruel sense of humour.

The opposition parties might have been caught out, but I think they have been preparing for a snap election for at least 6 months. In any case, I suspect that the voting public has, in the main, already decided not to vote for the Tories, irrespective of what any of the parties have in their manifesto.

I love how the ‘Minister for Common Sense’ is doing the least common sense this in trying to oust Sunka…. Get these people out of government asap

As an American, I find it very ironic that they’re doing an election on the 4th of July.

That thumbnail is gold

Probably not, but it would be very funny

Tories having another tantrum about their leader, probably listening to too much 'Things Can Only Get Better' and taking it as a challenge.

No because nobody else wants to be blamed for a historic defeat

I don't understand the UK system. Why let elected officials decide their own election schedule?

I don't want him ousted, I want him to lose his Seat as an MP. Now that would be very nice😁

Surely the new SNP leader having no profile is only going to help Labour and not the Tories?

What an unimaginable new low it would be. It would be a pathetic attempt to cling onto power, a new low even for the tories. But if they want Labour to have 550 seats, it is a rather good plan 😅

Send him to Rawanada

Does the labour party even need a manifesto at this point?

At a certain point… the Tories have to ask themselves what a move like that looks like through the prism of democracy. They can talk all they want about “our system is different” but they have no mandate. I’ve seen banana republics overthrown by its people for less. It would be an actual coup and the King would have to act accordingly- via the emergency powers act- to continue the election without interference or cancellation.

Even if they did manage to oust sunak and install a new leader, I actually think there's a good chance the king would refuse to delay the election. The king doesn't intervene in politics because it's anti-democratic, but I don't think anyone could complain that refusing to cancel an election that's just weeks away is the anti-democratic choice.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="266">4:26</a> "... as we saw in the final days of Truss a couple of years ago ..." You mean ALL of her 44 days as prime something? And it's been only one and a half years ago, but it feels much longer ago.

“The enemy can’t know your plan if you have none” ~ Sun Tzu, the art of war

>no idea what's going on which is par for the course for the tories.

I am not interested in speculating whether Sunak will be ousted before the election because I think it is very unlikely. Sunak called the snap election and he needs to bear the burden of leading the campaign and the responsibility of the consequences. Nobody wants to pick up his wreckage. I am much more interested to see a video that reviews the top contenders for the Tory leadership position after Sunak is gone, which will surely happen after the election.

The reson he called an election he wanted to go on his summer holidays...did not want to miss them

sunak must have known his party rivals were moving in for a kill, so he went for broke. it was bold move. it's te first time i've felt any admiration for him.

Really informative thank you

Thank you for your reporting TLDR it is much appreciated

I'm sorry, minister of common sense?

They are so f**ked

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="50">0:50</a> Can't focus on anything he's saying - can only focus on the police officer petting Larry!

ZERO SEATS!!!

I Love The British Soap Opera! ❤

I think the real reason is that Richie Rich Sunak is a sneaky little swot.

I sure hope so…

Things can only get wetter

Sunak is running. He knows something.

The thumbnail is awesome!

Best thumbnail for TLDR ever lol

Ngl, it would be so funny if one of the people to call a no confidence vote was the minister for common sense 🤣🤣

Thumbnail game on point, TLDR team 👌

Truss left couple of years ago, felt just like a few months ago.

We want TLDR election night special!!

I think "collapse of the Tories" is already a foregone conclusion. I don't think it could get any worse for them.

Wouldn't it be a hoot if they jumped through all those hoops and King Charles just shook his head and said "NO!" ??

Poor Sunak, he's been the only capable leader the Tories have had since May. (note: this was not a hard bar to meet considering the previous two PMs but considering he's the only one to not sink the ship even further beneath the waves, credit where it is due)

The Thumbnail had me XDDD

Sunak being dropped as party leader and refusing to step down basically makes him a neutral prime minister.

There's a minister for common sense?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="47">0:47</a> Cat

Zero seats 😂

What do you mean Reform won't have enough candidates. They are 20 short and are in the process of filling them. Labour are 100 short and the Cons are 190 short. So Reform are in better shape than the uniparty.

Sunackered!

Go on Nigel 🎉

The question being asked here is really whether the Conservative Party still can step back from the brink of insanity. So, I can see why this video was necessary.

If the Tories want to go into double digits in seats they could, the utter insanity of such a move would be hilarious.

What the hell is a minister for common sense? 😂

There’s a minister of “Common Sense” 😂🤣😂

This situation reminds me of last year in Spain. After horrible results (in terms of power) in local elections for the ruling forces Psoe+podemos, our president of goverment (Pedro sanchez) next day called a general election to prevent his party from gutting him, prevent the oposition of having a victory lap and force the far-left to coble together a coaltion.

Out of curiosity, couldn't the King refuse to cancel the election? I don't mean to say that he should or would, but practically speaking if he just said no, or refused to appoint the new prime minister, what really would happen? I feel like he actually could, even though convention might say that he shouldn't.

Do it, it would be so funny.

The way things are going I wouldn't be surprised if he stepped down and didn't run for his seat !

It'd be pretty difficult for the Commons to hold a confidence vote considering Parliament has been prorogued. As well, once Parliament is dissolved (currently scheduled for 30 May), there won't be any sitting MPs, and so Brady will have zero letters of no-confidence.

Couldn't the King dissolve Parliament if Sunak is ousted as Prime Minister?

An even better hypothetical, what if Labour won the election, but Starmer lost his seat... Anyone in Holborn and St Pancras want to try it and find out?

No, that's just too complicated to pull off!

But it would be really funny though...

Imagine if the producers of the tv show "The Thick of it" could use this potential material and adapt that turmoil

Good luck to the Uk from an American.

What would be the constitutional position if he suddenly announced he was not going to stand for re-election?

Is important to note that the dissolution of parliament is part of a small set of constitutional powers which exist in a sort of limbo, in the sense that they are neither exercised by the king on his own discretion nor, as is often incorrectly asserted, on the advice of the prime minister. Note how Sunak specifically said he had “requested” the king dissolve parliament, rather than “advised”. This is a recognition of the fact that the king does actually have a degree of discretion over calling elections, and that thus the PM doesn’t have the power to give legally binding advice, as is the case on other matters. While usually the monarch will accept a PM’s request for a dissolution, the Lascelles principles, a constitutional convention, lays out a series of scenarios in which the king can reject the request for a dissolution. Likewise, even if Sunak was somehow ousted as PM and replaced by someone opposed to an election, the king would be fully entitled constitutionally to refuse to call off the election. It would be very unlikely for the king to accede to such a request. He’d likely just keep the election going ahead anyway.

That ‘man’ Sunak bought Moderna stock before the vaccine was produced, in 2013, I think. How did he know that would make him a huge profit several years later? 🤔🤔

That tweet by Rory keeps showing up, I can’t help but think that the editors might be having a bit of fun with his predictions 😂

The minister for common sense???

That was inconsiderate of Sunak to make Cameron cut short his ministerial holiday to sunny Albania !😁😂

The current state of British politics at the top is very reminiscent of the declining days of the Roman Empire: churning or threatening their own leaders, while the economy is under pressure is bad news for any party AND the country they rule.

Minister for common sense? This government is a joke i swear 💀

Beth Rigby said on her podcast Electoral Disfunction that it was Andrea Leadsom who stood up in the 1922 Committee to dissent. Obviously she has since said she’s standing down anyway, which I suppose reveals her motives.

I hope he is

To not having the time of the election set by law and instead letting the prime minister decide seems to only benefit the prime minister/leading party. For everyone else it seems like pure madness and it can't be beneficial for democracy.

The only way to stop Sunak is to make sure he failed to win constituency

Even if it all worked out in their favor I don't think there's enough time for the whole process to go through before anyway. This may be the very first time that Sunak has ever outmaneuvered someone.

Can you look at the other unlikely hypothetical? What happens if Labour win, but Starmer loses his seat?

Im out of the loop, what the heck is a minister of common sense doing?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="140">2:20</a> it was Andrea Leadsom

Minster for Common Sense??? <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="143">2:23</a>

What the fuck is wrong with Prime Ministers of that tiny island

I'll give my immediate answer to the question posed in the title BEFORE I watch the video, and then (if I need to correct or clarify what I've said AFTER I've watched it, I will edit this comment to add further comments, but I will NOT change my original comments. ---- Before watching: Yes, it is quite possible that Conservative MPs COULD (thoeretically) write in enough numbers to the 1922 Committee to remove Sunak as leader before the election, but what would be the point? 1. I am not aware of any mechanism by which that would DELAY the election, now Parliament has already been prorogued prior to its full dissolution in a few more days. (Although if I'm wrong on this, I'd be extremely interested to learn more.) 2. No way that another leader could be selected before the election (for similar reasons as above). 3. Even if both of the above are NOT correct, any new leader would presumably have mere days to mount their own campaign, which is frankly ludicrous. 4. "Changing horse mid-stream" AGAIN would likely piss the electorate off even more, and would be electoral mass suicide. ---- After watching comments: Yeah, what I said above.