I'm watching a Top Gear rerun and Sir Prescott is the guest on this episode. Just curious how he could've been PM, better the earlier.
Sir John, not Sir Prescott.
It's not very likely he could be PM for any long period, but it is possible if (say) Blair's 2004 heart attack had been fatal, Prescott would have become PM temporarily while a leadership election was held. (Although this is debatable as there is no constitutionally codified succession procedure, as Meadow has noted in his Ted Short project).
You have to go a way back with PODs if you want someone like Prescott to be a credible figure for PM in his own right.
So no way he could win leadership in '94?
Not unless you killed off Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, and Margaret Beckett.
Indeed. And I should point out that I actually like Prescott. But someone like him wouldn't be seen as PM material anytime after the seventies.
Indeed. And I should point out that I actually like Prescott. But someone like him wouldn't be seen as PM material anytime after the seventies.
Prescott as a President of the Commission or whatever is actually probably more realistic than him being PM.