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TRUSS QUITS. Now what?

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The Mechanism for a General Election Without the Conservative Party Calling It?

Alyssna, name of Anna Sopel. What's the mechanism for a general election without the Conservative Party calling it? Or isn't there one? Well, I think as Liz has just said, unless they are unable to govern, I don't think they have to. But at some point, presumably, we go past sort of what the Constitution demands, right? And we go into a place of sheer political politics where it looks too weird to try and govern a party where there is so much demand for a more democratic process. Mayless, can I interrupt you? Stephen Swinford is reporting that Boris Johnson is standing. Okay, shit. So I'm in Vermont. He

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