Former deputy Prime Minister and Sheffield Hallam MP Nick Clegg has called for a general election in light of Andrea Leadsom’s withdrawal from the Conservative leadership contest.
Home Secretary Theresa May, who is expected to be Prime Minister by Wednesday evening, is not expected to call an election until Britain’s exit from the European Union has been negotiated.
Writing in The Guardian, the ex-Liberal Democrats leader said:
“The EU referendum has exploded constitutional, political and economic conventions.“
"Our country is in a tailspin.”
“An election of a new parliament in which MPs act responsibly to manage our historic divorce from the EU is the only way to forge some order out of the present chaos.”
His comments echo those of party leader Tim Farron, who said it was "simply inconceivable” that Theresa May could be made Prime Minister “without even having won an election in her own party, let alone the country.”
The Lib Dems have pledged to stand of a platform of re-entering the country into the EU bloc at the next general election.
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