Who Would Be Prime Minister?

[MandyMooMoo]

What would happen if the majority of seats were won by independent candidates in the general election? Who would be chosen as prime minister?

[ToraToraTora]

Probably the one with the most seats. They'd do a deal with the minor parties and some of the independents.

[drmorgans]

 

I think the king is given advice and then he invites a potential prime minister to try to form a government.

 

[THECORBYLOON]

If the independents were in the majority and one of them had the support of the majority of those in the Commons, the monarch would invite that person to become Prime Minister.

[davebro3]

Only one way to decide -

FIGHT !!!!!

ps. this isn't "News"

 

[Untitled]

the leader of the largest party is invited to form a government... so if a majority were independents then the leader of the biggest party (even if that party had only 10 seats) would need to find enough MPs to enter a governing coalition

[Jonathan-Joe]

"the leader of the largest party is invited to form a government"

Not quite. The person most likely to command a majority in the Commons (maybe after making deals to form a coalition) is invited to become Prime Minister.

[wepayurbenefits]

boris comes back

[drmorgans]

 

Davebro, the rules have been brought up to date, they play Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock now.

 

[New Judge]

"...the leader of the largest party is invited to form a government... so if a majority were independents then the leader of the biggest party (even if that party had only 10 seats) would need to find enough MPs to enter a governing coalition"

That isn't quite correct. 

At the moment, although Parliament is dissolved and there are no MPs, Mr Sunak and his Ministers remain in government. They remain so until the King invites somebody else to form a government.

In the event of a "hung" Parliament (and this hypothetical scenario is really an extreme version of a hung Parliament) the incumbent Government remains in office unless and until the Prime Minister tenders his and the Government’s resignation to the Monarch.  

The incumbent Government is entitled to await the meeting of the new Parliament to see if it can command the confidence of the House of Commons or to resign if it becomes clear that it is unlikely to command that confidence.

Of course in this ficticious scenario it is very likely that many government Ministers or even the Prime Minister may have been unseated and so would have no right to enter the floor of the Commons anyway to see if they could "command its confidence".  

In which case I've no idea what would happen. But interestingly when Parliament was first formed, there were no political parties. England has has a Parliament of one form or another since the 13th Century. But it was not until the 18th Century that formal political parties were formed and began to shape the way the Consitution has evolved.

[sandyRoe]

Who, indeed?

You'd need to be loco to want the job.