Ukip will face a fresh leadership election within 90 days after Mr Bolton
lost the no confidence motion.
Couldn't they just deliberately
lose a confidence motion and then refuse to support any other party?
The Hansard Society say the incumbent «caretaker» prime minister has first call on forming an administration: «Only if the incumbent prime minister fails to put together a deal with one or more of the other parties, or, after having chosen to «meet» parliament,
he loses a confidence motion, will the leader of the opposition party be invited to form a government.»
Not exact matches
He added that if First Minister Alex Salmond
lost a no -
confidence motion, he would have to resign - and the same thing would happen in Westminster.
Inflation was rising and on 1 March Labour
lost another two seats to the Tories in by - elections, prompting Mrs Thatcher to call a
motion of No
Confidence.